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contemptuosly. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.

See Krang.

(Pronounced kra`po") As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman.

. [Obs.] To let drive, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. "Four rogues in buckram let drive at me." Shak.

ek physicians, those who founded their practice on experience called themselves empirics. Krauth-Fleming. Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills. Locke.

A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.

Subject to the law of another. Krauth-Fleming.

mposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires. Krauth-Fleming.

The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-Fleming.

See Krang.

teral or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones. Krauth-Fleming.

A rake for scraping up muck or dung. See Muckrake, v. i., below.

A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth. Musk beaver (Zoöl.), muskrat (1). -- Musk beetle (Zoöl.), a European longicorn beetle (Aromia moschata), having an agreeable odor resembling that of attar of roses. -- Musk cat. See Bondar. -- Musk cattle (Zoöl.), musk oxen. See Musk ox (below). -- Musk deer (Zoöl.), a…

See Muskrat. Musquash root (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (Cicuta maculata), having a poisonous root. See Water hemlock.

See Okra.

ded. [R.] "This punctual spot." Milton. The theory of the punctual existence of the soul. Krauth.

The relation of an object to number. Krauth-Fleming.

-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram.

The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine. [Written also ratany.] Savanilla rhatany, the root of Krameria Ixina, a native of New Granada.

A kind of silk or satin. [Obs.] Thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord! Shak.