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hea butter. Butter and eggs (Bot.), a name given to several plants having flowers of two shades of yellow, as Narcissus incomparabilis, and in the United States to the toadflax (Linaria vulgaris). -- Butter boat, a small vessel for holding melted butter at table. -- Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower. --…

next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me. By foundation or by shady rivulet He sought them both. Milton.

A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon.

of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet. Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull Seafaring men o'erwatched. Milton. The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence. Sir W. Scott.

Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable. Arnold had sped his caitiff flight. W. Irving.

ulated to injure rather than benefit society. Goldsmith. The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws. Hawthorne.

ar. [Written also kalends.] The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

A divine vocation or summons. St. Paul himself believed he did well, and that he had a call to it, when he persecuted the Christians. Locke.

Painting in shades of one color; monochrome. Mollett.

To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak.

The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvæ are also called cankerworms.

In the manner of cannibal. "An he had been cannibally given." Shak.

A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self- slaughter. Shak.

taining; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak. The capacity of the exhausted cylinder. Boyle.

The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa.

To broil. [Obs.] "We had a calf's head carboned". Pepys.

s own carcass." South. Lovely her face; was ne'er so fair a creature. For earthly carcass had a heavenly feature. Oldham.

A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.

nk deeply or freely in compliment; to take in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels. He had been aboard, carousing to his mates. Shak.

A map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; a statistical map.