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ons, and a certain left-handiness (if I may use the expression) proclaim low education. Chesterfield.

the place of the moon in its elliptic orbit, causes small portions near the eastern and western borders alternately to appear and disappear each month.

without thunder, seen near the horizon, esp. at the close of a hot day. -- Lightning arrester (Telegraphy), a device, at the place where a wire enters a building, for preventing injury by lightning to an operator or instrument. It consists of a short circuit to the ground interrupted by a thin nonconductor over which…

to be agreeable to. [Obs.] Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there. R. of Gloucester. I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. Sir P. Sidney.

A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.

accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerable debtor. Chesterfield.

A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.

Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.

Full of love. [Obs.] Sylvester.

pitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid. Prayers made and granted in a luckless hour. Dryden. -- Luck"less*ly, adv. -- Lock"less*ness, n.

ritish Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.

A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.

One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit. -- a.

ake love to. See under Love, n. -- To make meat, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.] -- To make merry, to feast; to be joyful or jovial. -- To make much of, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly. -- To make no bones. See under Bone, n. -- To make no difference,…

A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea. Malabar nut (Bot.), the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally.

One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

isfied with the government. [Written also malecontent.] The famous malcontent earl of Leicester. Milner.

The rough surface of a congealed lava stream. [Southwestern U. S.]

A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses. Chesterfield.