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ilaginous pieces of the vertebrate skeleton to which the hind limbs are articulated. When fully ossified, the arch usually consists of three principal bones on each side, the ilium, ischium, and pubis, which are often closely united in the adult, forming the innominate bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate.…

Fully equal. [Obs.] Chaucer. "Peregal to the best." Spenser.

At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations.

To weight carefully in the mind. [R.] "Perpend my words." Shak.

s creed or mode of worship. Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. Matt. v. 44.

To pay wholly, or fully. [Obs.] E. Hall.

The act of carefully viewing or examining. [R.] Tatler.

To read through; to read carefully. Shak.

Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted. The only righteous in a word perverse. Milton.

To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.

A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.

A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.

Fully; roundly; plainly; without reserve. [Colloq.]

a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.

make room for the chromatin of the fertilizing spermatozoön; but their functions are not fully understood. -- Polar circles (Astron. & Geog.), two circles, each at a distance from a pole of the earth equal to the obliquity of the ecliptic, or about 23º 28', the northern called the arctic circle, and the southern the…

Politicly; artfully. [Obs.] Knolles.

In a politic manner; sagaciously; shrewdly; artfully. Pope.

tum; also, the tree itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately covered with crimson, acid pulp.…

To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively. Ponder the path of thy feet. Prov. iv. 26.