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The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. [R.] Paley.

A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.

rgy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

t, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resid…

An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.

arent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

h bar in Edinburgh. -- Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. -- Judge advocate. See under Judge.

e, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

al ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.

The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley.

t of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley.

A sudden attack; disturbance; broil. [R.] "These home alarms." Shak. Thy palace fill with insults and alarms. Pope.

A fortress; also, a royal palace. Prescott.

thing common into something precious. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shak.

An impalpable powder. [Obs.]

The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. [Obs.] Johnson.

One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.