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In a Magnificent manner.

Speaking reproachfully; slanderous. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

One who leads by the hand; a manuductor. [Obs.]

Withering without

Approaching maturity.

The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.

Wonderful. [Obs.]

Having many, or several, centers; as, a multicentral cell. Multicental development (Biol.), growth, or development, from several centers. According as the insubordination to a single center is more or less pronounced, the resultant organism will be more or less irregular in form and may even discontinuous.…

Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent benefactor. -- Mu*nif"i*cent*ly, adv.

or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ. Nascent passions and anxieties. Berkley.

As seen from Neptune, or having Neptune as a center; as, Neptunicentric longitude or force.

Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra; as, the neurocentral suture. Huxley.

Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness. Johnson.

Doing hurt, or having a tendency to hurt; hurtful; mischievous; noxious; as, nocent qualities. I. Watts.

Hurtfully; injuriosly. [R.]

Going out of use; becoming obsolete; passing into desuetude.

Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.

That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.

To exceed in odor. Fuller.