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Embodied in, or changed into, water. [Obs.] Cranmer.

The state of being inaquate. [Obs.] Bp. Gardiner.

Unequable. [R.] Bailey.

Unequal; uneven; various. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances, motions, rank, property, etc. There is so great an inequality in the length of our legs and arms as makes it…

An inequality.

Quartation.

The shell of a large Dentalium (D. pretiosum), formerly used as shell money, and for ornaments, by the Indians of the west coast of North America.

Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834. Jacquard apparatus or arrangement, a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for pro…

A small tree of the genus Citrus (C. Japonica) growing in China and Japan; also, its small acid, orange-colored fruit used for preserves.

A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.

A lackey. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Capable of being melted.

To melt; to become liquid. [Obs.] Woodward.

The process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation.

Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous. Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong. Dryden.

In a loquacious manner.

Loquacity.

ually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.

The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.