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Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal. [R.] Animal and belluine life. Atterbury.

Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming. He will do nothing that is beneath his high station. Atterbury.

open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.

To stain with blood. Overbury.

upport; -- followed by on or upon. Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. Atterbury. Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state]. South.

An epitome. Each woman is a brief of womankind. Overbury.

ches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter. Some such broacher of heresy. Atterbury.

l of Leo's had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses. Atterbury.

The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. "To give a public burial." Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air- tight, for the preserv…

Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury.

fish view; self-interested aim or purpose. No by-views of his own shall mislead him. Atterbury.

ily of plants (Camponulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

First in importance; chief; principal. A capital article in religion Atterbury. Whatever is capital and essential in Christianity. I. Taylor.

oöl.), any beetle that feeds habitually on dead animals; -- also called sexton beetle and burying beetle. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphidæ. -- Carrion buzzard (Zoöl.), a South American bird of several species and genera (as Ibycter, Milvago, and Polyborus), which act as scavengers. See Car…

by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote. Brande & C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.

A child's rocking-horse. Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross. Mother Goose.

rdinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues. That he [Attebury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macaulay.

the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.

he observance of the Fourth of July. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atterbury.

acrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. A never-failing monthly communicant. Atterbury.