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Resolute; persevering; constant; steady. Diligence is a steady, constant, and pertinacious study. South.

ence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.

One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water.

Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.

, a lock having a cylindrical bolt; a lock in which pins, arranged by the key, are used instead of tumblers. -- Pin money, an allowance of money, as that made by a husband to his wife, for private and personal expenditure. -- Pin rail (Naut.), a rail, usually within the bulwarks, to hold belaying pins. Sometimes appl…

A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)

Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). "In place of Lord Bassanio." Shak.

ed state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.

To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. Shak.

Working) See Feather, n., 7. -- Plug centerbit, a centerbit ending in a small cylinder instead of a point, so as to follow and enlarge a hole previously made, or to form a counterbore around it. -- Plug rod (Steam Eng.) , a rod attached to the beam for working the valves, as in the Cornish engine. -- Plug valve (Mec…

A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.

To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink. And plies him with redoubled strokes Dryden. He plies the duke at morning and at night. Shak.

said of seals. Pod auger, or pod bit, an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted.

To indicate the presence of game by fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do. He treads with caution, and he points with fear. Gay.

dice used in this game, esp. when marked with the ace, king, queen, jack, ten, and nine instead of the usual digits.

The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis.

tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather.

To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over."Painfully to pore upon a book." Shak. The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. Dryden.

, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediæval artists, for the sake of economy, instead of gold. Fairholt.

Corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture.