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Bareheaded. [Obs.]

Candid; frank; generous. Dryden. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ness, n. Walton.

See under Open.

Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.

touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open- beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak.

One who, or that which, opens. "True opener of my eyes." Milton.

The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech. The opening of your glory was like that of light. Dryden.

In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy. How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness! Tillotson.

The quality or state of being open.

Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.

To grant an outpension to.

Outlay; expenditure. [R.] A mere outspend of savageness. I. Taylor.

Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business; -- called also fixed, establishment, or (in a manufacturing business) a…

To make too ripe. Shak.

To weight carefully in the mind. [R.] "Perpend my words." Shak.

See Perpender.

l so as to appear on both sides of it, and acting as a binder; -- called also perbend, perpend stone, and perpent stone.

Something hanging straight down; a plumb line. [Obs.]

At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style (Arch.), a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early part of the 16th; -- probably so called from the vertical style of…

The quality or state of being perpendicular.