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The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.

Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.

The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

, when drink is on, wit is out. Drink money, or Drink penny, an allowance, or perquisite, given to buy drink; a gratuity. -- Drink offering (Script.), an offering of wine, etc., in the Jewish religious service. -- In drink, drunk. "The poor monster's in drink." Shak. -- Strong drink, intoxicating liquor; esp., liquo…

Given to drink; drunken. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries. Druid stones, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circles, or in detached pillars.

Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.

ht with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other. Trial by duel (Old Law), a combat between two persons for proving a cause; trial by battel.

An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.

e cube (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.

hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India. [India] [Written also darbar.]

; intentness. Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest. Sir P. Sidney. And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Shak. In earnest, serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.

A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to:

A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.

A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.

Given to eating; voracious; devouring. Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. Carlyle. -- E*da"cious*ly, adv. -- E*da"cious*ness, n.

That which produces a given effect; a cause. Jer. Taylor.

Capable of being given off as an effluvium. "Effluviable matter." Boyle.

One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self. I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle.