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nation, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.

To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.

Altercation; wrangling.

Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. -- n.

The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.

The state of being twice folded; reduplication. [R.] Bailey.

, high birth; noble extraction. Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. Prescott.

A publication issued every two weeks. -- Bi"week"ly, adv.

containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton.

Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification. Punished for his blasphemy against learning. Bacon.

Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record. Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company. Collier. Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee fivefold blazon. Shak.

. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.

A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces. This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. Deut. xxxiii. 1.

A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. [Eng.]

y way. You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication. Totten.

Study; application to books.

which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.…

The north wind; -- usually a personification.

ring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. Tomlinson.