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One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler.

One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.

A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service. Porson.

Relying on experiment or experience. "an experimentarian philosopher." Boyle. -- n.

Being beyond the limit or bounds; as, extraliminary land. Mitford.

See Feudatory.

Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.

In a fragmentary manner; piecemeal.

The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity. G. Eliot.

Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire. Donne.

Of or pertaining to wheat or grain. [R.] Coles.

A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers. Glutaric acid, an organic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, isomeric with pyrotartaric acid; -- called also normal pyrotartaric acid.

A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.

The great bustard.

One of the lessons from the Nebiim (or Prophets) read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.

Same as Heptarchist.

Of or pertaining to a heptarchy; constituting or consisting of a heptarchy. T. Warton.