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Old-womanish; imbecile. "Anile ideas." Walpole.

Anility. [R.]

Good against epilepsy. -- n.

Same as Antepileptic.

Febrifuge.

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Hom…

Inhabiting the water. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Potter's clay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having an aril.

One who assails.

Having power to attract.

One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.

An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving mo…

ase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate. [Obs.] Want makes us know the price of what we avile. B. Jonson.

For a while; for some time; for a short time.

Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed. Gray.

The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. Blackstone.

See Bailor.

A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.] Oxf. Gloss.

elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland.