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See Raskolnik.

An adherent of Neo-Kantianism.

The philosophy of modern thinkers who follow Kant in his general theory of knowledge, esp. of a group of German philosophers including F. A. Lange, H. Cohen, Paul Natorp, and others.

ain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age. Oriskany period, a subdivision of the American Paleozoic system intermediate or translational in character between the Silurian and Devonian ages. See Chart of Geology.

See Fisher, 2.

A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. [U.S. & West Indies]

A species of seaweed. [Spelled also slowcawn.] See 3d Laver.

A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.

A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay Archipelago.

A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser.

ls; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty. Fleming.

the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

Arkansas; -- a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.

that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line. "A bee line for the brig." Kane.

r the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin. "Fearing a besetment." Kane.

A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.

A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.

an Australian eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo. -- To make bold, to take liberties or the liberty; to venture.