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ated; esp., the act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or about towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

d exercise recruit the spirits. Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color. Glanvill.

To oppose. [R.] Glanvill.

Annexed to the land or manor; as, a villain regardant.

d already thet some of them were reinstated in their pristine happiness and felicity. Glanvill.

f a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by "unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs." W. Irving.

ximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the remotest cause." Granville.

ontest; a combat, action, or engagement. The justling chiefs in rude rencounter join. Granville.

One morally abandoned and lost. I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. Sir W. Raleigh.

, and she will not; she grants, denies, Consents, retracts, advances, and then files. Granville.

imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. [Archaic] He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted. Thackeray.

To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing. He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart. Granville.

forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

e. Women to cards may be compared: we play A round or two; which used, we throw away. Granville. The feast was served; the bowl was crowned; To the king's pleasure went the mirthful round. Prior.

iguratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable. He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind. Bancroft.

A villian; a criminal. [Obs.] Cheyne.

Evil; wicked; atrocious. [Obs.] "Scelestic villainies." Feltham.

A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood. Pope.

ne who scribles; a literary hack. The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine. Granville.

Of or pertaining to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia. [Written also Sedlitz.] Seidlitz powders, effervescing salts, consisting of two separate powders, one of which contains forty grains of sodium bicarbonate mixed with two drachms of RochellRochelle powders. -- Seidlitz water, a natural water from Seidlitz, containing…