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Becoming a statesman.

The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.

A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.

by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.

Narrowed.

, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. Milton. A wretched and apostate state. Steele.

Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.

Estate; state. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Wisconsin; -- a nickname.

Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay; -- a nickname.

Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.

Arkansas; -- a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.

Oregon; -- a nickname.

Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.

Tennessee; -- a nickname.

Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.

The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of…

The Sate of Kentucky; -- a nickname alluding to the blue-grass region, where fine horses are bred.

Colorado; -- a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the centennial year, 1876.

Washington -- a nickname. See Chinook, n.