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tries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country with a Western orientation was as politically unstable as a domino standing on edge. Used by some as a justification for American involvement in the Vietnam war, 1964-1972.

for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.

on. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, . . . still thou art a bitter draught. Sterne. Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Goldsmith.

o float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east. We drifted o'er the harbor bar. Coleridge.

Somewhat droll. Sterne.

ding angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Sterne.

t; hence, a clear, impartial view. Bacon. The scientific man must keep his feelings under stern control, lest they obtrude into his researches, and color the dry light in which alone science desires to see its objects. J. C. Shairp. -- Dry masonry. See Masonry. -- Dry measure, a system of measures of volume for dry or…

A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation. [Western U.S.] Bartlett.

A mistress; a sweetheart. I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head. Sterne.

Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.] Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color. De Foe. Deaf and dumb. See Deaf-mute. -- Dumb ague, or Dumb chill, a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined "chill." [U.S.] -- Dumb animal, any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quad…

h lane and every alley green. Milton. In short each man's happiness depends upon himself. Sterne.

The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East. The gorgeous East, with richest…

Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian. [R.] Ogilvie.

An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.

A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaëthon flavirostris.

A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

f residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western.

to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern. The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth. Eccl. xi. 3.

An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.

To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.