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The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal imprudence. Flown with insolence and wine. Milton.

Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant. "A paltry, insolent fellow." Shak. Insolent is he that despiseth in his judgment all other folks as in regard of his value, of his cunning, of his spea…

nd of inspiration which excludes all defect in the utterance of the inspired message. -- Verbal inspiration (Theol.), that kind of inspiration which extends to the very words and forms of expression of the divine message.

Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb or preposition.

ng entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.

Not transitive; not passing over tas, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs.

Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb.

The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.

the ore, as in the Catalan forge or bloomery, or by purifying (puddling) cast iron in a reverberatory furnace or refinery. It is tough, malleable, and ductile. When formed into bars, it is called bar iron.

The third person singular of the substantive verb be, in the indicative mood, present tense; as, he is; he is a man. See Be.

A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.

As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains.

A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.

The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.

The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious. Jonah crab (Zoöl.), a large crab (Cancer borealis) of the eastern coast of the United States, sometimes found between tides, but usually in deep water.

To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.

Cold as a metallic key; lifeless. [Formerly, a proverbial expression.] Shak. Milton.

Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement. We must observe the letter of the law, without doing violence to the reason of the law and the intention of the lawgiver. Jer. Taylor. I broke the letter of it to keep the sense. Tennyson.

ubs from the Cape of Good Hope, having handsome foliage. Leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom of the colonists.

An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. Nares. "Best sing it to the tune of light-o'-love." Shak.