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A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.

abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29.

o accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

one. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic] That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity. Jer. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes…

dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture. He would not adventure himself into the theater. Acts xix. 31.

valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott.

Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak.

A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

o daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.

Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.

In the form or manner of an amphitheater.

being so. The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.

on of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.