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To withstand. [Obs.]

Back again. [Obs.]

Of another kind. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration. A contract is a bargain that is legally binding. Wharton.

The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone.

One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.

One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.

A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

In opposition; against one's course. [Obs.] If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.

Ungainly; clumsy; awkward; also, troublesome; inconvenient. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Beau. & Pl.

The state or quality of being ungainly; awkwardness.

Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking. His ungainly figure and eccentric manners. Macaulay.

Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

e property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

ers of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

rmed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.

To protest against; to reject solemnly. [Obs.] I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge. Shak.

Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of.

ing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attri…