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To melt. [Obs.] Mortimer.

To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted. Mortimer.

To soak. [Obs.] Mortimer.

ng; fæces; compost; manure; as, night soil. Improve land by dung and other sort of soils. Mortimer. Soil pipe, a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land. Mortimer.

Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton.

The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclus…

To make cold and unproductive, as soil. Mortimer.

To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire. Mortimer.

eories; a theorist. A speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by nature mortal. Macaulay.

To split; to break; to spalt. [Obs.] Mortimer.

To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.

Affected with gangrene; mortified.

The process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.

It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms. Mortimer.

The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material. There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Job xxxii. 8. As the body witho…

A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists. What is calle…

Vexation; chargrin; mortification. [R.] Shak. In spite of, or Spite of, in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding. "Continuing, spite of pain, to use a knee after it had been slightly ibnjured." H. Spenser. "And saved me in spite of the world, the devil, and myself." South. "In spite…

A shoot; a sprout. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.