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Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. [Archaic] Bacon.

A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation. Dunglison.

To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.

of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.

or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

-- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form. The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank. Palfrey.

An outburst of temper or excitement. [Colloq.]

A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [Colloq. U. S.]

Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity. [Colloq. U. S.]

An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze. [Colloq.] Land breeze, a wind blowing from the land, generally at night. -- Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.

Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting. [Colloq.]

Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement. A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. South.

an a cabal, employed for selfish purposes in agitating the community and working up an excitement with a view to change the existing order of things. "Selfishness, insubordination, and laxity of morals give rise to combinations, which belong particularly to the lower orders of society. Restless, jealous, ambitious, and…

To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. Gay.

To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions. Passions which seem somewhat calmed.

lege, or of books, or of the stars. Card catalogue, a catalogue, as of books, having each item entered on a separate card, and the cards arranged in cases by subjects, or authors, or alphabetically. -- Catalogue raisonné Etym: [F.], a catalogue of books, etc., classed according to their subjects. Syn. -- List; roll;…

Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.

rrors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.

The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.