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To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely.

Metaphorically used for what is transitory. Surely the people is grass. Is. xl. 7.

With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely. -- a.

A director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance. [Colloq.]

cock of (a firearm) at the first notch. To go off halfcocked. (a) To be discharged prematurely, or with the trigger at half cock; -- said of a firearm. (b) To do or say something without due thought or care. [Colloq. or Low]

Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly. Hardly shall you one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good. South.

In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.

bilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; th…

Sincerely beloved. [R.] Shak.

ich blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. [The sing. hemorrhoid is rarely used.]

Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion. Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised. Dryden.

Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.

an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.

Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.

A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison.

Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager. Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful. Dryden. There was mouthing in hot haste. Byron.

One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.

To cultivate, as land; to till. [R.] Land so trim and rarely husbanded. Evelyn.

500 years, forming the XVth and XVIth dynasties. It is now considered that the XVIth is merely a double of the XVth dynasty, and that the total period of the six Hyksos kings was little more than 100 years. It is supposed that they were Asiatic Semites.