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Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc. Conspiracy and mutual promise. Sir T. More. Happy in our mutual help, And mutual love. Milton. A certain shyness on such subjects, which…

Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives. The mythopoeic fertility of the Greeks. Grote.

Giving an account of events; narrative; as, narratory letters. Howell.

Of or pertaining to necrology; of the nature of necrology; relating to, or giving, an account of the dead, or of deaths.

Pertaining to, or giving rise to, the central nervous system and epiderms; as, the neuroepidermal, or epiblastic, layer of the blastoderm.

The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.

rd or forward motion of the head, in assent, in familiar salutation, in drowsiness, or in giving a signal, or a command. A look or a nod only ought to correct them [the children] when they do amiss. Locke. Nations obey my word and wait my nod. Prior. The land of Nod, sleep.

Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb. -- n.

ll attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.

The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.

Capable of giving nourishment. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act or art of numbering. Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign. Locke.

Giving particular attention; habitually attentive to what passes; as, an observing person; an observing mind. -- Ob*serv"ing*ly, adv.

ertain rights of the family or kindred in restricting the freedom of transfer or sale and giving certain rights of redemption in case of change of ownership by inheritance, etc., and perhaps to other rights of the kindred or the tribe. Survivals of the early odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland, where i…

Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

cks at a certain future date and at a certain price, to demand the delivery of the stock (giving one day's notice) at any previous time at the market price. -- Seller's option, an option allowed to one who contracts to deliver stock art a certain price on a certain future date, to deliver it (giving one day's notice)…

Tending to ordain; directing; giving order. [R.] Gauden.

Giving an image in correct or normal proportions; giving a flat field of view; as, an orthoscopic eyepiece.

To surpass in giving. Dryden.

To surpass in giving rede, or counsel. [Obs.] See Atrede. Chaucer.