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Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.

The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Rambler.…

One of a body of heavy cavalry. [Obs.] [France]

The body of gendarmes.

Kind; sort. [Obs.] "One gender of herbs." Shak.

Having no gender.

Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.

Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows:

A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

extent of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with the word Habendum. Kent.

A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions. 1.

Half; by the part. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- n.

Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.

That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.

= Jewish calendar.

A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.

Friendly; civil; gentle; kind. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. [Written also endecagon.]

series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.

Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.