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Bereft. Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn. Heber.

Having great tenderness; easily moved. [Obs.] Shak.

The thing stolen. [R.] If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double. Ex. xxii. 4.

The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment.

Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.

Not bereft; not taken away.

A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif. [Obs.] "A forlorn weft." Spenser.

Texture. [Obs.] Grew.

See Waft, n., 4.

surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

n, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. Burke.

lming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. His words impression left Of much amazement. Milton.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.

y substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

turning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe…

An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.