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A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.

able; certain. "The inevitable hour." Gray. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. Burke.

The privilege granted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords. Cowell.

Same as Infante. [Obs.] Spenser.

An acute disease, almost exclusively infantile, characterized by inflammation of the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It is attended with febrile symptoms, motor paralysis, and muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis.

On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.

Situated below the eyes, as the antenna of certain insects.

A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.

Inserted in the corner of the eye; -- said of the antenn

One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennæ, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheæ, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect, n.…

for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.

s. Beds of fresh-water shells . . . are intercalated and interstratified with the shale. Mantell.

or layer between other layers. Intercalations of fresh-water species in some localities. Mantell.

Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.

een, or within, the eyes; as, the interocular distance; situated between the eyes, as the antennæ of some insects.

A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar.

Heartiness; earnestness. What was wanted was more inwardness, more feeling. M. Arnold.

The third joint or the antennæ of the Crustacea.

Of or pertaining to the Isospondyli; having the anterior vertebræ separate and normal.

Shak. -- Jack the Giant Killer, the hero of a well-known nursery story. -- Jack-with-a-lantern, Jack-o'-lantern. (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp. "[Newspaper speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns to the future historian." Lowell. (b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in illumi…