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Mode, or manner, of living; hence, a temporary arrangement of affairs until disputed matters can be settled.

See Provand. [Obs.]

animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed. "Hay or other provender." Mortimer. Good provender laboring horses would have. Tusser.

To reclaim; to demand the restoration of. [R.] Vattel (Trans. ).

The act of revendicating. [R.] Vattel (Trans. )

See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.

A substance to be dissolved. [R.]

That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.

s] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. Fuller.

operty to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

To partake of a dessert after a feast. [Obs.] Where they did both sup and banquet. Cavendish.

The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.

dopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray. Lindley.

The French lavender (Lawandula Stachas).

A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.

or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc. ; the Column Vendôme; the spinal column.

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.…