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Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

t is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man. Chesterfield.

A collegian. [R.] Chesterfield.

to my request. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.

good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

the plural. [Obs.] An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield.

A chest, or coffer. [Obs.] Bearing that precious relic in an ark. Spenser.

so adapted; a transcription; as, a pianoforte arrangement of Beethoven's symphonies; an orchestral arrangement of a song, an opera, or the like.

self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. Shak.

tion. He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. John ix. 21. He asked the way to Chester. Shak.

assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

one of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison.

h side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. W. Black.

tice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.] Oxf. Gloss.

ams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. Bay cat (Zoöl.), a wild cat of Africa and the East Indies (Felis aurata). -- Bay lynx (Zoöl.), the common American lynx (Felis, or Lynx, rufa).