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A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.

Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude. Tennyson.

Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.

ne; a line of kings. Of his lineage am I, and his offspring By very line, as of the stock real. Chaucer.

According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase. It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide. Tyndale .

. A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. [Eng.]

A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank. [Eng.]

ia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera.

ll lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species. [Written also lori.]

To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little.

A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus).

Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise. That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome. De Quincey.

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies. The material elements of the universe. Whewell.

In an important manner or degree; essentaily; as, it materially concern us to know the real motives of our actions.

Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.

The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.

contradistinction from apparent time, or that actually indicated by the sun, and from sidereal time, or that measured by the stars.

ium, a current medium of exchange, whether coin, bank notes, or government notes. -- Ethereal medium (Physics), the ether. -- Medium of exchange, that which is used for effecting an exchange of commodities -- money or current representatives of money.

Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.

An error committed in chronology by placing an event after its real time.