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One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.

To repent; to displease; to disgust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Act of taking a bath or baths. Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.

The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. Smyth.

To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. I have bethought me of another fault. Shak. The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. We be…

Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.

Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.

Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth.

ts in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth. Ps. xxxv. 13

The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.

Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.

Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [Jocular] Carlyle. Miss Austen.

The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.

Acetylene.

A yellow pigment imported from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow.

Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things. More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope.

A very small quantity or value. [Obs.] In her cup was no farthing seen of grease. Chaucer.

the petticoat. We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things. Shak.

The state of being filthy. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 2 Cor. vii. 1.

The lower house of the Danish Rigsdag, or Parliament. See Legislature, below.