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nt, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.

chitectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.

Bearing arms. [R.] They belonged to the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. De Quincey.

itted much, of him they will ask the more. Luke xii. 48. An exigence of state asks a much longer time to conduct a design to maturity. Addison.

Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty. [Written also Asmonæan.]

s sold at a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is short at the longest.

Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.

suring heights. -- Siphon barometer, a barometer having a tube bent like a hook with the longer leg closed at the top. The height of the mercury in the longer leg shows the pressure of the atmosphere. -- Wheel barometer, a barometer with recurved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a pulley and moves an…

Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.

A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.

Deep-toned, prolonged barking. "The bay of curs." Cowper.

y broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretace…

service. A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids. Luke ix. 10. The mighty men which belonged to David. 1 Kings i. 8.

Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.

One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.

time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure. Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business Luke ii. 49.

A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.

Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type.

disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse. These card the short comb the longer flakes. Dyer.