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Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.

The diplomatic agent of the pope highest in grade, superior to a nuncio.

undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings. He arrogated to himself the right of deciding dogmatically what was orthodox doctrine. Macaulay.

To bring into subjection. [Obs.] Shak.

A trifle; a thing of no importance. Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior.

Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.

Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice. Gray.

Having two pairs, as of leaflets.

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

To sail completely round. Having circumnavigated the whole earth. T. Fuller.

To declare war with certain ceremonies. [Obs.] Holland.

A joint legatee.

To tie or bind together. The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson.

nited body; to gather together; to mass; to compact. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. Milton.

lied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. Conjugate axis of a hyperbola (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci. -- Conjugate diameters (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects…

awing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated…

To weary or tire out; to fatigue. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution. [U.S.] Court of delegates, formerly, the great court of appeal from the archbishops' courts and also from the court of admiralty. It is now abolis…

To bind up; to bandage.