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That which seduces; seduction; allurement. Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everAkenside.

Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes. From thence to heaven's bribeless hall. Sir W. Raleigh.

One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices.

The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements. Bribery oath, an oath taken by a person that he has not been bribed as to voting. [Eng.]

wo kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people. Addison.

rant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which it describes. (b) To give an order for; to request. "Whenever the coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale." Marryat. -- To call on, To call upon, (a) To make a short visit to; as, call on a friend. (b) To appeal to; to invite; to…

A Native or inbabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.

One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.

state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes. In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge. Deut. xxiv. 13. If the case of the man be so with his wife. Matt. xix. 10. And when a lady's in the case. You know all other things give place. Gay. You think this madness but…

A chief or petty king among some tribes of Indians in America.

Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. [Written also Keltic.]

settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.

A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.

ture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." Sir T. Browne.

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

One who, or that which, circumscribes.

ristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, gemera, etc.