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or from transmitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. Blackstone.

entatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.

Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.

(a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country. All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him. Shak.

An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant." He [Wharton] was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house.…

A crazy or crack-brained person. [Obs.] I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector. Addison.

lergymen. A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope. Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerströmia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Southern United States. Its foliage is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. -- Oriental crape. See Canton crape.…

A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.

See Crassament.

A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. Darwin. [Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back. C. Pitt.

An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.

ime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness. Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves. Addison.

nded charge of disloyalty and disaffection, an uncorrupt, independent, and reforming parliament. Burke.

An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.

Ornamented with crockets.

Ornamentation with crockets. Ruskin.

A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [Obs.]

An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consist of a central medallion with seven arms radiating f…

A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing).