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See Againbuy. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To buy off. (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party. -- To buy out (a) To buy off, or detach from. Shak. (b) To purchase the share or shares of i…

A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoëthes scribendi, "The itch for writing". Addison.

A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it.

or the government and protection of a free people. [Religion] is . . . calculated for our benefit. Abp. Tillotson.

multiplicity of publication is, that some of them may be calculated to injure rather than benefit society. Goldsmith. The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws. Hawthorne.

To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.

avigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted. Camel bird (Zoöl.), the ostrich. -- Camel locust (Zoöl.), the mantis. -- Camel's thorn (Bot.), a low, leguminous shrub (Alhagi maurorum)…

Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.

A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

To quality. [R.] The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.

Gay or rich clothing. My heart groans beneath the gay caparison. Smollett.

An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpeter, sulphur, and kieselguhr.

ntial and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl.

, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

rstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess. Tennyson. He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival Byron.

A carack. See Carack. Carrick bend (Naut.), a kind of knot, used for bending together hawsers or other ropes. -- Carrick bitts (Naut.), the bitts which support the windlass. Totten.

rich stuff for shawls, acaris, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.

An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.

The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.