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Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

To rave as a bacchanal. [R.] Cockeram.

Wild raving or debauchery. [R.] Prynne.

Arborescent or dendritic agate.

Pertaining to the last or final things.

The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.

To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man. Creech. Sir. T. Browne.

The office or the province of an exarch. Jer. Taylor.

The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.

A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.

Agate jasper. [Obs.]

The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot. Loudon.

A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufchâtel- en-Bray in France.

The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch. Jer. Taylor.

The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.

A variety of agate containing sard.

A person whose business is marriage brokage; a marriage broker, esp. among certain Jews.

uropean singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.

A tetrarchy.