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judgment; unrestrained exercise of choice or will. At discretion, without conditions or stipulations.

To deprive of personality or individuality. [R.] We multiply; we dispersonate ourselves. Hare.

n is the same as the aggregated result of the two or more partial operations. Ordinary multiplication is distributive, since a × (b + c) = ab + ac, and (a + b) × c = ac + bc. -- Distributive proportion. (Math.) See Fellowship.

Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety. "Diversity of sounds." Shak. "Diversities of opinion." Secker.

finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.

Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc. Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. 2 Kings ii. 9. Darkness and tempest make a double night. Dryden.

One who drinks drams; a tippler. [Obs.] Tatler.

A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew. Gray.

A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus). [Written also douroucouli.]

Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy. [R.] M. Collins.

e-sided leaves. -- Elephant's foot (Bot.) (a) A South African plant (Testudinaria Elephantipes), which has a massive rootstock covered with a kind of bark cracked with deep fissures; -- called also tortoise plant. The interior part is barely edible, whence the plant is also called Hottentot's bread. (b) A genus (Eleph…

To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy. [Colloq. & Sportive] "The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo." Sir W. Scott.

A medicine causing constipation.

A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.

the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchi…

Originating from within; increasing by internal growth. Endogenous multiplication (Biol.), a method of cell formation, seen in cells having a cell wall. The nucleus and protoplasm divide into two distinct masses; these in turn become divided and subdivided, each division becoming a new cell, until finally the original…

Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.

Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

led rat-tailed larvæ) are remarkable for their long tapering tail, which spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly.

a, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.