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A very venomous viper (Daboia Russellii), native of Ceylon and India; -- called also cobra monil.

The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place. [R.]

Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical. Burton. -- Trop`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of. [R.] If . . . Minerva be tropologized into prudence. Cudworth.

A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word. Sir T. Browne.

A discourse or treatise on types.

A century; the period of one hundred years. Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages. Hallam.

pardon of his God, the court, etc. In popular language, the phrase now denotes a public apology or recantation, and reparation to an injured party, for improper language or treatment.

That branch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations. P. Cyc.…

manner, that it would be if. -- As it were (as if it were), a qualifying phrase used to apologize for or to relieve some expression which might be regarded as inappropriate or incongruous; in a manner. -- As now, just now. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- As swythe, as quickly as possible. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- As well, also; too;…

China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.) Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Tennyson.

Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic. Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.

quarrel." Shak. St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill.

Excuse; apology. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist. [Obs.] Hume.

Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.

To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for. Think ye that we excuse ourselves to you 2 Cor. xii. 19.

Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology. Whillock.

ct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant. Addison .

To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[R.] The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedions hours. Loveday.