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rcial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.

In no degree; not at all; in no wise. Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed. Milton. The influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed. Burke. Nothing off (Naut.), an order to the steersman to keep the vessel close to the wind.

Hence: A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel. Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. Shak.

f anything, as upon the back of a leaf or sheet already written upon on one side. [R.] Scudamore.

oduce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach.

One who ordains or establishes; a director. [R.] T. Adams.

n an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.

nknown; new; as, a book full of original matter. Original sin (Theol.), the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also total depravity. See Calvinism.

duced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone. Tyndall.

A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.

Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction. J. Q. Adams.

t, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage. Sir W. Parish.

The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.

the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane; also, the fundamental axial ratio for a given species.

A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.] The worthy dame was parcel-blind. Sir W. Scott. One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded]. Tennyson. Parcel poet, a half poet; a poor poet. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

combination form an ordinary tone; the overtones, or harmonics, which, blending with a fundamental tone, cause its special quality of sound, or timbre, or tone color. See, also, Tone.

A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers. "Dame Partlett, the hen." Shak.

artnership beyond the amount of cash they contribute as capital. -- Partnership in commendam, the title given to the limited partnership (F. société en commandité) of the French law, introduced into the code of Louisiana. Burrill. -- Silent partnership, the relation of partnership sustained by a person who furnishes…

To compose, to calm. [Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam." Shak.