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An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [U. S.]

A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.

A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. [Obs.] "Old feeble carrions." Shak.

r person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.

aling with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to…

A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach. Shak.

Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.

e contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of s…

ll understood." Ure. Catalytic force, that form of chemical energy formerly supposed to determine catalysis.

Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time. -- Catch"- crop`ping, n.

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.

uthoritative. Now, what solemnity can be more required for the pope to make a cathedral determination of an article! Jer. Taylor.

A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent course of the nervous infuence. Marshall Hall.

e. The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes. Darwin. Caudal fin (Zoöl.), the terminal fin (or "tail") of a fish.

Having a taill; having a termination like a tail.

The sterm of a tree., esp. a sterm without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the pernnial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.

In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to suport the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.

a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.

Without intermission or end.

A cincture, girdle, or belt; -- chiefly used in English as a dressmaking term.