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and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form. Encyc. Brit. Cussans.

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans.

vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans.

Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. Cussans.

Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n.

d by a tie connecting its two ends. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tenacious fiber of the Sanseviera Zeylanica, growing in India and Africa, from which bowstrings are made. Balfour.

il architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.

Ropture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense. My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. Shak.

he opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. Shak. Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind. Shak.

A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister. Cussans.

The character in which Sanskrit is written.

The act of differentiating. Further investigation of the Sanskrit may lead to differentiation of the meaning of such of these roots as are real roots. J. Peile.

Deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks. Cussans.

Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.

which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.

plied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.

Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. Cussans.

In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.