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o assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

ing; -- often followed by on or upon. He was required to attend upon the committee. Clarendon.

ions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.

on for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."

ngs executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. Blackstone.

Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence. Donne.

rolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.

An amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of Mexico; the siredon.

In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member. [Obs.]

ought Love pitying me, when he saw this, Gave me your hands, the backs and palms to kiss. Donne.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7.

A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.] Oxf. Gloss.

A portable oven in which baking is done. [U.S.] A baker's dozen, thirteen. -- Baker foot, a distorted foot. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused by the irritating properties of yeast. -- Baker's salt, the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread.…

fuse; to let go by; to shirk. [Obs. or Obsolescent] By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the Evelyn. Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat. Bp. Hall. Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he meeteth. Drayton.

A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.]

A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.

banker. Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.