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s are concealed from the drawer. -- To pay scot and lot, to pay taxes according to one's ability. See Scot.

Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. L'Estrange.

To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.

oid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.

e, lake prepared from madder, and distinguished for its transparency and the depth and durability of its color.

The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.

An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can. How may a man, said he, with idle speech, Be won to spoil the castle of his health ! Spenser. For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what he may do as just, and what…

Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days. Ps. xxxix. 4.

ich arise from the chance union of these germ cells in pairs, according to the law of probability, are therefore on an average in the following proportions:

Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness. [Obs.] He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design. Bp. Burnet.

pose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity. What so strong, But wanting rest, will also want of might Spenser. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Deut. vi. 5. With might and main. See unde…

To put in mind; to remind. [Archaic] M. Arnold. He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things. Fuller. I do thee wrong to mind thee of it. Shak. Never mind, do not regard it; it is of no consequence; no matter.

Capability of being mixed.

is monstrous; a monster. South. A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. Adanson (Trans. ).

The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.

; according to the usual course of things and human judgment; according to reason and probability. It is morally impossible for an hypocrite to keep himself long upon his guard. L'Estrange.

Capability of motion; contractility.

Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. C. Kingsley. -- Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability. -- Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our muscl…

One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause. Specifically: