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The quality of being invendible; invendibleness; unsalableness.

Not vendible or salable. Jefferson. -- In*vend"i*ble*ness, n.

Irreverent. [Obs.] Immodest speech, or irreverend gesture. Strype.

A lunisolar calendar in use among Hebraic peoples, reckoning from the year 3761 b. c., the date traditionally given for the Creation. It received its present fixed form from Hillel II. about 360 a. d. The present names of the months, which are Babylonian- Assyrian in origin, replaced older ones, Abib, Bul, etc., at the…

See Calendar.

See Calendarial.

See 3d Calender.

Same as Calends.

h colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green Shak.

on in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.

n from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable. And in this legend all that glorious deed. Read, whilst you arm you. Fairfax.

Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous. "Legendary writers." Bp. Lloyd. Legendary stories of nurses and old women. Bourne.

nd use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow. Give me that ring. I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power To give it from me. Shak.

Such as can be lent. Sherwood.

One who lends. The borrower is servant to the lender. Prov. xxii. 7.

See Lends. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of one who lends.

Loins. [Obs.] Wyclif.

One of an extinct family of trees allied to the modern club mosses, and including Lepidodendron and its allies.

Allied to, or resembling, Lepidodendron. -- n.