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nious oxide or arsenious anhydride; -- called also arsenious acid, white arsenic, and ratsbane.

To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons. Fuller.

The publishing of banns.

Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts.

A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract. Bancroft.

perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. Cowell. Blount. (b) pl.

The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors. Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her.

The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns.

ies of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zenith from a dusky line or bank, a few degrees above the northern horizon; when reaching south beyond the zenith, it forms what is called the corona, about a spot in the heavens toward which the dipping needle points. Occasionally the aurora appears as an a…

racteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.

nat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also axis band, axial fiber, and cylinder axis. -- Axis in peritrochio, the wheel and axle, one of the mechanical powers. -- Axis of a curve (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords of a curve; called a principal…

A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

and forth, backwards and forwards; to and fro. -- To go back on, to turn back from; to abandon; to betray; as, to go back on a friend; to go back on one's professions. [Colloq.]

ore Miss Torry could produce this highly finished . . . performance. Mrs. Alexander. A husband somewhere in the background. Thackeray.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7.

Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.

An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc. [Eng.]

ce; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account. " A balance at the banker's. " Thackeray. I still think the balance of probabilities leans towards the account given in the text. J. Peile.