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ole body of knights. The knighthood nowadays are nothing like the knighthood of old time. Chapman.

See Kimnel. [Obs.] Chapman.

Ladies' man, a man who affects the society of ladies. -- Lady altar, an altar in a lady chapel. Shipley. -- Lady chapel, a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. -- Lady court, the court of a lady of the manor. -- Lady crab (Zoöl.), a handsomely spotted swimming crab (Platyonichus ocellatus) very common on the sandy…

Leafy. [Obs.] Chapman.

acy and message wherefore I am sent into the world. Tyndale. He came and told his legacy. Chapman. Legacy duty, a tax paid to government on legacies. Wharton. -- Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy.

Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland.

A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork. [Obs.] Chapman.

m Lucerne, in Switzerland. My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine. Chapman.

Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive. Broome. A chapter upon German rhetoric would be in the same ludicrous predicament as Van Troil's chapter on the snakes of Iceland, which delivers its business in one summary sentence, announcing, that snakes in Iceland -- there are none. De Quincey.…

See Mandil. Chapman.

en grown so mankind Must they be wooing Beau. & Fl. Be not too mankind against your wife. Chapman.

Unmanly; inhuman. [Obs.] Chapman.

oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. Oak mast, and beech, . . . they eat. Chapman. Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast. South.

To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.

To supply with food. [Obs.] Tusser. His shield well lined, his horses meated well. Chapman.

Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. Then entered they the mere, main sea. Chapman. The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. Jer. Taylor.

urely; unmixedly; absolutely. Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked. Chapman.

To reward. [R. & Obs.] Chapman.

of Mete, to measure. Chapman.

The middle part of the main or sea. [Poetic] Chapman.