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urch, especially that of England; nonconformity. It is the dissidence of dissent and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. Burke.

Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon.

The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley.

armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour…

small globules; to distill. "The trees drop balsam." Creech. The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Sterne.

ts of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.

A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust. [U.S.]

An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice. Meissner.

Same as Acroterium (a).

A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold.

A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.

f Nantes (French Hist.), an edict issued by Henry IV. (A. D. 1598), giving toleration to Protestants. Its revocation by Louis XIV. (A. D. 1685) was followed by terrible persecutions and the expatriation of thousands of French Protestants.

The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want. [R.] J. Grote.

wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera.

To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; Protection granted in emergent danger. Burke. Emergent year (Chron.), the epoch or date from which any people begin to compute their time or dates; as, the emergent year of Christendom is that of the birth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declara…

To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. [Obs.] Holland.

To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.

ing to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions Grote.