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Want of prosperity. [Obs.]

Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth. Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience. Dryden. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Addison.

Not having experience unskilled. "Inexperienced youth." Cowper.

Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies.

The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.

To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper. Polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

A yellow amorphous substance extracted from juniper berries.

One of the fossil Coniferæ, evidently allied to the juniper.

To affect with leprosy.

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper. Naperian logarithms. See under Logarithms.

A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by…

Inflammation of a bone and its periosteum.

To pamper. [R.] Sydney Smith.

The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. Whatly.

The act or process of reducing to pauperism. C. Kingsley.

To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.

A volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of sand, scoria, cinders, etc.

es, and very acid berries, -- the sour gum, or common tupelo. See Tupelo. [Written also piperidge and pipperidge.] Pepperidge bush (Bot.), the barberry.

Hot; pungent; peppery. Swift.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.