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inactive masses. Sir I. Newton. A deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred To rage. Savile.

Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. Two menial dogs before their master pressed. Dryden.

rdid; selfish. Shak. For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines, with servile pen. Daniel.

ut on a new appearance. Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. Turbervile.

An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite. Sir J. Davies. Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy! Shak.

ries. (b) A school for the religious instruction of children not having regular church privileges.

rly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.

To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.

The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered t…

Anything filthy or vile. Spenser.

Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. [Obs.] Spenser. Mucky money and false felicity. Latimer.

The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.

To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a native subject.

Hence, vile; base; naughty. [Obs.] No man can be stark naught at once. Fuller.

ked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.

The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected. Rescue my poor remains from vile neglect. Prior.

Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive.

of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge. That they may not incline or be obligated to any vile or lowly occupations. Landor.

picture. Mr.Cowley asserts plainly, that obscenity has no place in wit. Dryden. No pardon vile obscenity should find. Pope.

Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite. There lies ever in "obsequious" at the present the sense of an observance which is overdone, of an unmanly readiness to fall in with the will of another. Trench.