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Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen. Loblolly bay (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia (G. Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree (Laplacea hæmatoxylon). -…

s of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.

Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. [R.] Coleridge.

human beings; solitary. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread. Coleridge .

takes his thoughts for person and things, he is mad. A madman is properly so defined. Coleridge.

A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

rgin; a maid. She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens. Carew. A maiden of our century, yet most meek. Tennyson.

ue, and all manner of herbs. Luke xi. 42. I bid thee say, What manner of man art thou Coleridge.

Marriageable. [R.] Coleridge.

gether into masses; to assemble. But mass them together and they are terrible indeed. Coleridge.

t. Hooker. You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements. Coleridge. Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. Sir W. Hamilton.

Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran. Coleridge.

A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.

having a fleshy and usually globose stem with the surface divided into spiny longitudinal ridges, and bearing at the top a prickly and woolly crown in which the small pink flowers are half concealed. M. communis, from the West Indies, is often cultivated, and sometimes called Turk's cap. (b) The related genus Mamillari…

Any essential part, as a post, tie rod, strut, etc., of a framed structure, as a bridge truss.

The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method. Coleridge.

ery. [Colloq.] "He was mighty methodical." Jeffrey. We have a mighty pleasant garden. Doddridge.

One who misuses. "Wretched misusers of language." Coleridge.

In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Monkish. [R.] Coleridge.