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f spiritual existences; a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.

In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.

who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management.

A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.

ity of the physical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately consc…

A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

[Obs.] "A costive brain." Prior. "Costive of laughter." B. Jonson. You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, but without being costive. Lord Chesterfield.

One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.

In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also cottar and cotter.]

(Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.

Any lath laid without actual measurement between two gauged laths.

front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left.

itics), a sudden, decisive exercise of power whereby the existing government is subverted without the consent of the people; an unexpected measure of state, more or less violent; a stroke of policy. -- Coup d'oeil (k. Etym: [F.] (a) A single view; a rapid glance of the eye; a comprehensive view of a scene; as much as…

quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution. The king-becoming graces . . . Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them. Shak. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when…

Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, o…

, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.

One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship. [Scot.]

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

Without craft or cunning. Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor.

ation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders. Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. Dryden.