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Capable of being authorized. Hammond.

The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry.

Missing; wanting. [Prov. Scot. & Eng.] Sir W. Hamilton.

ed mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

rine of a modern religious sect, which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Parsee elements.

ern religious pantheistical sect in Persia, which was founded, about 1844, by Mirza Ali Mohammed ibn Rabhik (1820 -- 1850), who assumed the title of Bab-ed-Din (Per., Gate of the Faith). Babism is a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish, and Parsi elements. This doctrine forbids concubinage and polygamy, and frees w…

From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. Dryden.

Trashy talk. [Obs.] Ascham.

The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.

utual attraction of oppositely electrified surfaces. Knight. -- Balance fish. (Zoöl) See Hammerhead. -- Balance knife, a carving or table knife the handle of which overbalances the blade, and so keeps it from contact with the table. -- Balance of power. (Politics), such an adjustment of power among sovereign states…

To keep steady; to steady, morally. 'T is charity must ballast the heart. Hammond.

er your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. Chatham.

a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. "Having two barbs or points." Ascham.

An inferior bard. J. Cunningham.

Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious. "Barefaced treason." J. Baillie.

Openly; shamelessly. Locke.

The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.

barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere. Derham.

A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.