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A world between other worlds. Holland.

They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished. Holland.

Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed. Holland.

Entreaty. [Obs.] Holland.

invoice. Goods, wares, and merchandise imported from Norway, and invoiced in the current dollar of Norway. Madison.

the summer day As if you brought a candle out of doors. Mrs. Browning. -- Bank of issue, Collateral issue, etc. See under Bank, Collateral, etc. -- Issue pea, a pea, or a similar round body, used to maintain irritation in a wound, and promote the secretion and discharge of pus. -- To join, or take, issue, to take opp…

rethuss arose . . . From rock and from jag. Shelley. Garments thus beset with long jags. Holland.

A soldier armed with a javelin. Holland.

y definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.

A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears;- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe.

nts, as meat. "He joints the neck. Dryden. Quartering, jointing, seething, and roasting. Holland.

An iron collar fastened to a wall or post, formerly used in Scotland as a kind of pillory. [Written also juggs.] See Juke. Sir W. Scott.

hts in the lists; to tilt. [Written also just.] For the whole army to joust and tourney. Holland.

to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence. Bacon.

The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.

Inclined to vomit; squeamish. [R.] Holland.

The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.

Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels. Holland.

An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5.

husk or covering. When the kex, or husk, is broken, he proveth a fair flying butterfly. Holland.