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An extensive group of mammals including all those that have hoofs. It comprises the Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla.

having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, eccl…

imp. of Uprise. Uprose. Chaucer. Nor dim nor red, like God's own head The glorious sun uprist. Coleridge.

An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.

upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines. The utility of the enterprises was, however, so great and obvious that all opposition proved useless. Macaulay.

A tribe of Old World lizards which comprises the chameleon. They have long, flexible tongues.

ng to the eye or the imagination. A government intent on showy absurdities and viewy enterprises rather than solid work. London Spectator.

ning to the sight; visual. [Obs.] I can not satisfy myself how men should be so little surprised about this visive faculty. Berkeley.

al force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.

A genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.

A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liége, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively. [Written also Wallons.] "A base Walloon . . . thrust Talbot with a spear." Shak. Walloon guard, the bo…

nd ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise. Burrill.

ealth to lose. Shak. Each day new wealth, without their care, provides. Dryden. Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else. F. A. Walker. Active wealth. See under Active.

as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiasticus, Ecclesiastes, and Wisdom of Solomon. The "wisdom" (Hokhmah) of these writings consists in detached sage utterances on concrete issues of life, without the effort at phi…

Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner. The definition of wit is only this, that it is a propriety of thoughts and words; or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject. Dryden.…

mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement. They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. Acts iii. 10. Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance. Johnson.

Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder. Bacon. All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage. Sir W. Scott.

Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.

Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange. That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works. Ps. xxvi. 7. -- Won"drous*ly, adv. -- Won"drous*ness, n. Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved. Granville.

That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.