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A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.

hropoid ape (Pan paniscus) resembling the chimpanzee, but somewhat smaller; also called bonobo. It is considered (1996) as having the closest genetic relationship to humans of any other animal. It is found in forests in Zaire, and is an endangered species.

y, those of high rank or station, as distinguished from the masses, or common people; the nobility; the gentry. I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling habits. Addison.

tic. Our people quarrel with obedience. Shak. But some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed. Shak.

cy on the part of a queen. Elizabeth showed much queencraft in procuring the votes of the nobility. Fuller.

clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it South.

The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. [Also written ragman-roll.]

Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.

ty thousand of the rascal. Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19). Poor men alone No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal. Shak.

f an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul Addison.

The charge or account made by a host at an inn. A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning. Addison.

Report of nobleness or exploits; praise. This famous duke of Milan, Of whom so often I have heard renown. Shak.

g; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation. Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot. Shak.

ense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction. [Obs.] Which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers. Sir T. Browne.

efraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness. Such fine reserve and noble reticence. Tennyson.

haic] This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations. Evelyn. Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus. Addison.

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. Swift.

n a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant. "He was not right fat". Chaucer. For which I should be right sorry. Tyndale. [I] return those duties back as are right fit. Shak.

ian robin (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Asiatic saxoline birds of the genera Thamnobia and Pratincola. They are mostly black, usually with some white on the wings. -- Magrie robin (Zoöl.), an Asiatic singing bird (Corsycus saularis), having the back, head, neck, and breast black glossed with blue, the wings b…

y, vaunting, or turbulent. I have a roisting challenge sent amongst The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks. Shak.