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The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; teachery. The ambition and perfidy of tyrants. Macaulay. His perfidy to this sacred engagement. DeQuincey.

To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

isible. Phanerite series (Geol.), the uppermost part of the earth's crust, consisting of deposits produced by causes in obvious operation.

igmentary degeneration (Med.), a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.

A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.

Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. Shak.

To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. "My resolution 's placed." Shak.

A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent. [U.S.]

a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.

o, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.

Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man. -- n.

The Pliocene period or deposits.

An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.

upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend m…

To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent. And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. Tickell.

A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; - - distinguished from preposition.

ry wasp (Eumenes fraternal) which constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larvæ, such as cankerworms, as food for its young.

A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. Burke.

Prejudice; prepossession. [Obs.] Sir. H. Blount.

To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind s…