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- Legislative council, the upper house of a legislature, usually called the senate. -- Privy council. See under Privy. [Eng.]

; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [Written also decad.] During this notable decade of years. Gladstone.

A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist. [R.]

archbishops' courts and also from the court of admiralty. It is now abolished, and the privy council is the immediate court of appeal in such cases. [Eng.]

A sink or drain; a privy. Shak. Matt. xv. 17. (c) pl. (Med.)

A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. [Obs.] 2 Kings x. 27.

tal casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn. Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed. The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile. Bacon.

The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.

A privy or jakes. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gong farmer, Gong man, a cleaner of privies. [Obs.]

e, ice formed at the bottom of a body of water before it forms on the surface. -- Ground ivy. (Bot.) A trailing plant; alehoof. See Gill. -- Ground joist, a joist for a basement or ground floor; a. sleeper. -- Ground lark (Zoöl.), the European pipit. See Pipit. -- Ground laurel (Bot.). See Trailing arbutus, under A…

One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy.

Of or pertaining to ivy.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.

Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.

Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.

p within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle. [Written also enclasp.] The flattering ivy who did ever see Inclasp the huge trunk of an aged tree. F. Beaumont.

To encircle to gird; to engirt. The wreath is ivy that ingirts our beams. Drayton.

Overgrown with ivy.