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Surreptitious; spurious. [Obs.] Dr. Castell (1673).

A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium. Dunglison. Jactitation of marriage (Eng. Eccl. Law), a giving out or boasting by a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue. Blackstone.

A descendant of Japheth.

Inflammation of the cornea.

Act or state of lying hid, or lurking. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Lying hid; concealed; latent. [R.]

A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding. Blackstone.

A lying in concealment; hiding. [Obs.]

ewise from a given point or line; breadth; width. Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part. Sir H. Wotton.

Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.

opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone.

A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief. Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. De Quincey. He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion. J. S. Harford.

Having latitude, or wide extent.

A mineral, of a white color and vitreous luster. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles. [Written also laumonite.]

Slowness; sluggishness. [Obs.]

. A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.

An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called also magnetic iron.

A ferruginous variety of shalerite or zinc blende, nearly black in color.

Iron sesquioxide in isometric form, probably a pseudomorph after magnetite.

Inflammation of the breast.