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The place where provisions are deposited. [Obs.]

of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place.

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place. Farrow.

Hollowness. [Obs.] The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin.

A mark placed under the letter c [thus, ç], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in façade.

distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.

Any small cavity, or hollow place.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.

To be placed in a center; to be central.

An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.

he commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.

Placed in the center or middle; central. At York or some other centrical place. Sir W. Scott. -- Cen"tric*al*ly, adv. -- Cen"tric*al*ness, n.

Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal. Balfour.

A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.

To place in a chair.

The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.

To assert a right; to claim a place. Where nature doth with merit challenge. Shak.