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A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate.

Any species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the family Solenidæ.

Of or pertaining to the solens or family Solenidæ.

Pain over the region of the spleen.

Villanage. Blackstone.

d by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. Base fee, formerly, an estate held at the will of the lord; now, a qualified fee. See note under Fee, n., 4. -- Base metal. See under Metal.…

A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende.

A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

A villain, or tenant in villenage.

e, whether vocal or instrumental, pecuilarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.

One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

Millenarian. "The obstruction offered by the chiliastic errors." J. A. Alexander.

To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.

the mass. Brande & C. -- Eye animalcule (Zoöl), a flagellate infusorian belonging to Euglena and related genera; -- so called because it has a colored spot like an eye at one end. -- Eye doctor, an oculist. -- Eye of a volute (Arch.), the circle in the center of volute. -- Eye of day, Eye of the morning, Eye of he…

eiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction. -- False galena. See Blende. -- False imprisonment (Law), the arrest and imprisonment of a person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or the unlawful detaining of a person in custody. -- False keel (Naut.), the timber below the m…

Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed. Mozley & W.

Pertaining to, or containing, galena.

Galena; lead ore.

iii. 16. The age which we now live in is not an age of inspiration and impulses. Sharp. Plenary inspiration (Theol.), that kind of inspiration which excludes all defect in the utterance of the inspired message. -- Verbal inspiration (Theol.), that kind of inspiration which extends to the very words and forms of expre…