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One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated. [Colloq.] Ld. Lytton.

Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.

seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage. And judges job, and bishops bite the town. Pope.

One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.

The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata). Dr. Prior.

To catch. [Now obs. in spelling, and colloq. in pronunciation.] To ketch him at a vantage in his snares. Spenser.

Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy. Art thou good at these kickshawses! Shak.

Fantastic; restless; as, kicksy-wicksy flames. Nares.

machine, for the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, gi…

rit hath my duty strongly knit. Shak. Come , knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. Milton. A link among the days, toknit The generations each to each. Tennyson.

Sandalwood (Santalum album).

t to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim. It ill became him to take advantage of such a laches with the eagerness of a shrewd attorney. Macaulay.

ltaic arc is used as the source of light. -- Dëbereiner's lamp, an apparatus for the instantaneous production of a flame by the spontaneous ignition of a jet of hydrogen on being led over platinum sponge; -- named after the German chemist Döbereiner, who invented it. Called also philosopher's lamp. -- Flameless lamp,…

ll in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education. Felton.

t of the earth's surface near either pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the antarctic circle. -- Low latitude, that part of the earth's surface which is near the equator.

The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a poin…

h an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.

A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.

Easily bent; pliable. Lithy tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum Lantana); -- so named from its tough and flexible stem.

To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.