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it in the door. To find the latchstring out, to meet with hospitality; to be welcome. (Intrusion is prevented by drawing in the latchstring.) [Colloq. U.S.]

A reading; a variation in the text. We ourselves are offended by the obtrusion of the new lections into the text. De Quincey.

the condition of being born in such a state that acts of life are manifested after the extrusion of the whole body. Dunglison. -- Live box, a cell for holding living objects under microscopical examination. P. H. Gosse. -- Live feathers, feathers which have been plucked from the living bird, and are therefore strong…

An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter. Dunglison.

n; dispossession; ejection; disseizin. Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement. Blackstone. Ouster le main. Etym: [Ouster + F. la main the hand, L. manus.] (Law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands, or a judgement g…

A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. "Jack's in the pouts." J. & H. Smith.

The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion. Sir W. Hamilton.

To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor. E. Eggleston. The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers. L'Estrange.

A protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye; as, a staphyloma of the cornea.

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.

An intrusion of one vegetable cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells. Goodale.