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In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.

or and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead. Graphite battery (Elec.), a voltaic battery consisting of zinc and carbon in sulphuric acid, or other exciting liquid.…

ennyson. Better half. See under Better. -- In half, in two; an expression sometimes used improperly instead of in or into halves; as, to cut in half. [Colloq.] Dickens. -- In, or On, one's half, in one's behalf; on one's part. [Obs.] -- To cry halves, to claim an equal share with another. -- To go halves, to share e…

as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people. (b) Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French translation of Elliott's Life of Hecker. They were condemned as "Americanism" by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899…

To treat cruelly or improperly; to ill use; to maltreat.

To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon.

The act of improperly interfering. Burke.

o hardtail, horse crevallé, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.

A kind of basketwork wear in a river, for catching fish. [Improperly spelled kittle.]

called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge. [Written also, but improperly, lazaroni.]

ocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.

t is marked by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also charbon, and sometimes, improperly, anthrax.

Improperly, the cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum).

rest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in. Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt 2 Kings xiv. 10. The civil lawyers . . . have meddl…

monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church. Minster house, the official house in which the canons of a cathedral live in common or in rotation. Shipley.

Improperly appreciated.

To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully. [Obs.] W. Browne.

To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

To bestow improperly.