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Approaching maturity.

Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.

Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.

e of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach. Miters, and wretched dead mediæval monkeries. Carlyle.

A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person. [Slang]

, or in doing a specific art required, by music which is made more loud or rapid as he approaches success, and slower as he recedes. Tennyson. -- Music box. See Musical box, under Musical. -- Music hall, a place for public musical entertainments. -- Music loft, a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a chur…

, he will discredit our mystery. Shak. And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to reproach and common infamy. Spenser.

rson, place, or thing. -- To call names, to apply opprobrious epithets to; to call by reproachful appellations. -- To take a name in vain, to use a name lightly or profanely; to use a name in making flippant or dishonest oaths. Ex. xx. 7.

To approach; to come nearer; as, the ship neared the land.

To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near. [Obs.] Wyclif (Matt. iii. 2).

Approaching toward night.

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

ur present north star, being distant from the pole about 1º 25', and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also Cynosura, polestar, and by astronomers, Polaris.

Stigma; brand; reproach. [Obs.] Shak. Note of hand, a promissory note.

of that nuptial, which We two have sworn shall come. Shak. Preparations . . . for the approaching nuptials. Prescott.

To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason. He gave to him to object his heinous crime. Spencer. Others object the poverty of the nation. Addison. The book ... giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered. Whitgift…

Containing obloquy; reproachful [R.] Naunton.

Cause of reproach; disgrace. [Obs.] Shak.

mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.