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Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison.

To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. [Obs.] Shak.

, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist. A number of moderate members managed ... to obtain a majority in a thin house. Swift.

ndostan by the Mongols under Baber in the sixteenth century. Hence, a very important personage; a lord; -- sometimes only mogul. Dryden.

Mintage; coinage. [Obs.]

A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.

To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship.

The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship.

A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf. Blackstone.

ue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim. From nepotism Alexander V. was safe; for he was without kindred or relatives. But there was another perhaps more fatal nepotism, which turned the tide…

s, etc; as, net profit; net income; net weight, etc. [Less properly written nett.] Net tonnage (Naut.), the tonnage of a vessel after a deduction from the gross tonnage has been made, to allow space for crew, machinery, etc.

shed from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.

A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story. [Colloq.]

To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.

anything is, or is done; by. And told to her of [by] some. Chaucer. He taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. Luke iv. 15. [Jesus] being forty days tempted of the devil. Luke iv. 1, 2.

white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic. Dunglison.

(Citriobatus parviflorus); also, its edible yellow berries. -- Orange bird (Zoöl.), a tanager of Jamaica (Tanagra zena); -- so called from its bright orange breast. -- Orange cowry (Zoöl.), a large, handsome cowry (Cypræa aurantia), highly valued by collectors of shells on account of its rarity. -- Orange grass (Bo…

ders for blankets are large. In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them. Lamb.

Disposition; distribution; management. South.

The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.