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ervation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.

Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.

rofit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale. They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator. To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of…

Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.

The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.

m; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.…

At intervals of a minute; very often and regularly. J. Philips. Minutely proclaimed in thunder from heaven. Hammond.

An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.

Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious. "Valor misbegot." Shak.

Irregularity; disorder. [Obs.] Camden.

Irregular; disorderly. [Obs.]

Wrong or irregular proceding.

ducted by missionaries. (b) A school for the religious instruction of children not having regular church privileges.

Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna.

ce, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." Chaucer. Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so strict a rule of life as monks are. Ayliffe.

A publication which appears regularly once a month.

(Chem.), the impure or complex residual solution which remains after the salts readily or regularly crystallizing have been removed. -- Mother queen, the mother of a reigning sovereign; a queen mother. -- Mother tongue. (a) A language from which another language has had its origin. (b) The language of one's native la…

a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. Dryden. Mound bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Mound maker (below). -- Mound builders (Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North American aborigines w…

a single center is more or less pronounced, the resultant organism will be more or less irregular in form and may even discontinuous.

. Multiplication table, a table giving the product of a set of numbers multiplied in some regular way; commonly, a table giving the products of the first ten or twelve numbers multiplied successively by 1, 2, 3, etc., up to 10 or 12.