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al neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight. The disregard of experience. Whewell.

d in a sense very diverse from its original import. J. Edwards. Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. R. Browning.

To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. [Obs.] My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences. W. Caxton. I shall . . . your cloister do make. Piers Plowman. A fatal plague which many did to die. Spenser. We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churche…

ld as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. Whewell.

Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. South. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. Milton.

Declivous; descending; sloping. "A downhill greensward." Congrewe.

That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

liss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. Spenser. The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. Thackeray.

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat. [Slang, Eng.] Halliwell.

ane (Bot.), a west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech. -- Dumb crambo. See under crambo. -- Dumb show. (a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown in pantomime. "Inexplicable dumb shows and…

A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound. Whewell.

as, the effect of luxury. The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. Whewell.

elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling. -- Elf fire, the ignis fatuus. Brewer. -- Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona.

Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.

Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial line. Whewell.

of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the objects are viewed.

Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed.

The libration of the moon. Whewell.

the human soul. Sir. M. Hale. The principles which art involves, science alone evolves. Whewell. Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. J. C. Shairp.

trange arts." Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.