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l of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. "Left the place in a huff." W. Irving.

h prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist. [R.] God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me. Fuller.

To think; to suppose. My sister is not so defenseless left As you imagine. Milton.

death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale. Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison.

erfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak.

fect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern. Reid. His words impression left. Milton. Such terrible impression made the dream. Shak. I have a father's dear impression, And wish, before I fall into my grave, That I might see her married. Ford.

Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet. "That imprint of their hands." Buckle.

"the chymists say this," or "the chymists affirm that." Boyle. The time of this last is left indefinite. Dryden.

tious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague. Them that were left alive being infected with this disease. Sir T. North.

Immediately; instantly; at once; as, he left instanter.

ntouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire. Buckle. When all external differences have passed away, one element remains intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.

; as, an interval between two houses or hills. 'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, A dreadful interval. Milton.

t in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on.

Fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles. Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons. Macaulay.

A subclass of Gastropoda, in which the body is symmetrical, the right and left sides being equal.

Having no issue or progeny; childless. "The heavens . . . have left me issueless." Shak.

A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation. Arethuss arose . . . From rock and from jag. Shelley. Garments thus beset with long jags. Holland.

Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks. " Jagged vine leaves' shade." Trench. -- Jag"ged*ly, adv. -- Jag"ged*ness, n.

d; deceitful. Janus-faced lock, one having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. Knight.

An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.