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The position of the sun at noon. [Obs.] Drayton.

A single farmhouse; a steading. [Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Grose. Jamieson.

An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4. Moored in the neighboring roadstead. Longfellow.

re the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes. J. S. Mill.

ies are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.

; to arterialize. Aërated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.

A path through the air made easy for aërial navigation by steady winds.

Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary. Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally. Buckle.

Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. At least to try and teach the erring soul. Milton.

A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon,…

One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

A false aril; an aril originating from the micropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.

To make resemble. [Obs.] If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke.

Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance. Brave men meet danger with assurance. Knolles. Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance. Locke.

f a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene.