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The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

ying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment. Sir J. Herschel.

The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionists. Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a philosophical one. G. C. Robertson.

The state of rising above others; a projection. Evelyn. Boyle.

Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.

Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament.

dence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery. This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations. Tillotson.

ute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he d…

y; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson.

Satisfied; contented; also, constrained. Shak. The learned Castalio was fain to make trechers at Basle to keep himself from starving. Locke.

ecome detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide." Shak.

An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.

he tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

enitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors. David slept with his fathers. 1 Kings ii. 10. Abraham, who is the father of us all. Rom. iv. 16.

One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.

One who makes a practice off discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.

or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority. Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares. Milton.

promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.

e of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. Shak. Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. Dr. J. Scott.