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unbecoming assurance; shamelessly. At once assail With open mouths, and impudently rail. Sandys.

Want of compassion or pity. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

To indulge. [R.] Sandys.

Insatiably. [Obs.] Sandys.

; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous. "Infamous woods." P. Fletcher. Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. Milton. The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made. Dryden.

nk, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath. A thousand inferior and particular propositions. I. Watts. The body, or, as some love to call it, our inferior nature. Burke. Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge. Dryden.…

ate. Clarendon. . . . She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears relates. Sandys.

r state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.

An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong. Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered, or at least without being punished. Swift.

al to; -- usually with of. [R.] This very consideration to a wise man is instead of a thousand arguments, to satisfy him, that in those times no such thing was believed. Tillotson.

silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton.

, -- usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars. They have told their money, and let out Their coin upon large interest. Shak.

Covered with minute grains, appearing like fine sand.

A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe.

rk; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.

A native of the Sandwich Islands.

A unit of work equal to one thousand ergs.

A combining form used to signify thousand in forming the names of units of measurement; as, kilogram, kilometer, kilowatt, etc.

A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to 2.2046 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39º Fahrenheit.

A measure of capacity equal to a cubic meter, or a thousand liters. It is equivalent to 35.315 cubic feet, and to 220.04 imperial gallons, or 264.18 American gallons of 321 cubic inches.