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In a jovial manner; merrily; gayly. B. Jonson.

Noisy mirth; joviality. Hewyt.

Joviality. [R.] Barrow.

Having the qualities of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes. Lixivial salts (Old Chem.), salts which are obtained by passing water through ashes, or by pouring it on them.

Pervious. [Obs.] -- Per"vi*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] Chapman.

Of or pertaining to rain; rainy. [R.]

Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.

Having four ways meeting in a point. B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to synovia; secreting synovia. Synovial capsule, a closed sac of synovial membrane situated between the articular surfaces at diarthrodial joints. -- Synovial fluid, synovia. -- Synovial membrane, the dense and very smooth connective tissue membrane which secretes synovia and surrounds synovial capsu…

Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar. As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. De Quincey.

A trivial matter or method; a triviality. Carlyle.

The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.

In a trivial manner.

Quality or state of being trivial.

Alluvial. [R.] Johnson.

A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

ng to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

on. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

To fill up with alluvial earth. [Obs.] Ray.

The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth. [Obs.]