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divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

n the armor of God. Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern Engli…

wift war vessel. [Hist. or Archaic] Fuller. The great dromond swinging from the quay. W. Morris.

A mean, sordid person; a niggard. Norris.

Tending to external objects. [R.] Norris.

l hath elbowroom." Shak. Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom. W. G. Norris.

Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory. Norris. -- Ex*hib"it*ive*ly, adv.

and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects. R. Morris.

ave overshot the mark, and must hark back. Haggard. He harked back to the subject. W. E. Norris.

ve in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving.

The quality of being imitable. Norris.

The quality or state of being inimitable; inimitableness. Norris.

showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce.

Full of whims; capricious. Norris.

The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris.

A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture.

Same as 1st Morris.

A morris dancer. [Obs.]

Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles. Nine men's morris. See Morris. -- Nine points circle (Geom.), a circle so related to any given triangle as to pass through the three points in which the perpendiculars from the angles of the triangle upon the opposite sides (or the sides produced) meet the sides.…