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brand originated by a dishonest cattleman, who, without owning any stock, gradually accumulates a herd by finding mavericks. [Western U. S.]

The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

t after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.

Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest plates.

A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used instead of stone. Knight.

Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.

One who, or that which, modulates. Denham.

One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.

The commodity or other material thing to which the monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in France. [Colloq.]

f Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.

highest degree. Those nearest to this king, and most his favorites, were courtiers and prelates. Milton.

One who mutilates.

That branch of botanical science which relates to the musgrooms and other fungi.

h an iron bolt protruding to prevent it from turning in the gun. -- Nail plate, iron in plates from which cut nails are made. -- On the nail, in hand; on the spot; immediately; without delay or time of credit; as, to pay money on the nail. "You shall have ten thousand pounds on the nail." Beaconsfield. -- To hit the…

One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.

c) Untamed; uncvilized. -- Nature printng, a process of printing from metallic or other plates which have received an impression, as by heavy pressure, of an object such as a leaf, lace, or the like. -- Nature worship, the worship of the personified powers of nature. -- To pay the debt of nature, to die.…

eying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements, etc.

e of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.

That branch of science which relates to the ocean.

One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer. I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. 1 Kings i. 21.