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Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue.

merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

One who uses chicanery. Locke.

se and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam.

Limping. [R.]

Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.

e of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. A never-failing monthly communicant. Atterbury.

Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.

Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [R.] Spelman.

Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed. Burke.

A game of cards derived from conquian, played by two or more players with one or two full packs of cards.

(b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.

Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.

The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel. Shipley.

A Linnæan class of plants characterized by having ten stamens.

Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.

Having ten angles.

Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side.