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be imitated from the color of the wall panels of houses in Pompeii, which were decorated during the last age of the Republic.

ing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law. Bacon. That profound reverence for law and prescription which has long been characteristic of Englishmen. Macaulay.

as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; -- said of a part of an infant during labor.

The particular position of the child during labor relatively to the passage though which it is to be brought forth; -- specifically designated by the part which first appears at the mouth of the uterus; as, a breech presentation. Presentation copy, a copy of a book, engraving, etc., presented to some one by the author…

The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison.

A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn.

One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent. Is it concluded he shall be protector ! Shak.

The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.

One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinæ.

pted among Europeans, Americans, and other Occidentals, for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit of drawers and blouse for such wear.

Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight. Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica. -- Quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material; -- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold to the doctrine, of nonresistance. -- Quaker ladies (…

arge quantities. The quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable, study. Macaulay. Quantity of estate (Law), its time of continuance, or degree of interest, as in fee, for life, or for years. Wharton (Law Dict. ) -- Quantity of matter, in a…

Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stati…

Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting.

- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons. During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity. Macaulay.

The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month.

eaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike. [Trades-union Cant] J. McCarthy.

Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.…

ut towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.