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A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.

asure. For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure. F. Harrison.

The large white lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) which is extensively cultivated in Bermuda.

can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris.

A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris. F. Harrison.

Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.

The sulter's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers.

surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates. The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. Macaulay.

The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or caold. Harris.

A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. Bescherelle.

The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.

are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization. [Obs.] Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. Sir J. Davies. The gradual depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization. Trench.

om that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." F. Harrison.

tery", and the last "fiery", than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse. J. Harris The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading. Macaulay.

Making complete. [R.] J. Harris.

eration. The Grecian common wealth, . . . the most heroic confederacy that ever existed. Harris. Virgil has a whole confederacy against him. Dryden.

configurations [of the mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. Harris.

in sentences, yet, with respect to the sense, some are conjunctive and some disjunctive. Harris.

pon; contiguous. This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale.