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ans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

An agrarian law. [R.] An equal agrarian is perpetual law. Harrington.

A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [Chiefly in Phrenol.]

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.

At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient. Sir H. Wotton.

he perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.

A petty love affair or amour. [Obs.]

A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

Absence of sexual appetite.

Saltpeter. Coxe. Johnson.

Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.] I never ate with angrier appetite. Tennyson.

nguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.