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Inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble. And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife. Milton.

Lady; mistress; -- used by Hindustani-speaking natives in India in addressing European women.

ng of sand. -- Minute gun, a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute as a sign of distress or mourning. -- Minute hand, the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes.

Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Chaucer. Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom. iii. 16.

le of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate. G. Eliot.

To afflict; to distress. [Obs.] Which infinitely moans me. Beau. & Fl.

city. (a) The measure of the elastic force of any substance, expressed by the ratio of a stress on a given unit of the substance to the accompanying distortion, or strain. (b) An expression of the force (usually in terms of the height in feet or weight in pounds of a column of the same body) which would be necessary to…

The customary abbreviation of Mistress when used as a title of courtesy, in writing and printing.

A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding. Burrill.

t a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh. My wife! my traitress! let her not come near me. Milton.

Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing. [Archaic] Chaucer. The needful time of trouble. Bk. of Com. Prayer.

A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.

Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress.

Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous. Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land. Deut. xv. 11. Spare the bluches of needly merit. Dr. T. Dwight.

ure, at which the fibers are neither stretched nor compressed, or where the longitudinal stress is zero. See Axis. -- Neutral equilibrium (Mech.), the kind of equilibrium of a body so placed that when moved slighty it neither tends to return to its former position not depart more widely from it, as a perfect sphere or…

leave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress. Tennyson.

Above all others; particularly. [Obs.] His most only elected mistress. Marston.

e shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses.

A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.