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A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean.

Same as Inosite.

Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.

A machine generating more than one pressure wave; a multiphaser.

ire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Chaucer. That loves the thing he can not purchase. Spenser. Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling. Shak. His faults . . . hereditary Rather than purchased. Shak.

One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.

To chase again; to chase or drive back.

To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. Sir M. Hale.

A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.

Same as Diphase, Diphaser.

sing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

Purchase; bargaining. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier.

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

go along by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.

Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.

Work chased or embossed relief.

A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky.

Obtainable. [Obs.] General Howe would not permit the purchase of those articles [clothes and blankets] in Philadelphia, and they were not attainable in the country. Marshall.