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The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.

agorean and Eleatic philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were first promulgated. -- Italic version. See Itala.

A machine of great antiquity, used in Bengal for raising water to irrigate land. Knight.

zil (Bothrops jararaca), about eighteen inches long, and of a dusky, brownish color, variegated with red and black spots.

Agate jasper. [Obs.]

mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and col…

cial sale. "Judicial massacres." Macaulay. Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated. Milton.

dsman of Dutch descent. They lived in the State of New York, and their history was investigated by R. L. Dugdale as an example of the inheritance of criminal and immoral tendencies, disease, and pauperism. Sixty per cent of those traced showed, degeneracy, and they are estimated to have cost society $1,308,000 in 75 ye…

authority. To live exempt From Heaven's high jurisdiction. Milton. You wrought to be a legate; by which power You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops. Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated.

To traverse with a keel; to navigate.

ustody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver. The Lord is thy keeper. Ps. cxxi. 6.

A small postern or gate in a palisade, for the passage of sallying parties. [Written also klinket.]

iginal destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.

e, or legacy, which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or for ether cause. Wharton (Law Dict.).

ing in place by entering a notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate when closed, though it be not bolted.

oor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used. Lath brick, a long, slender brick, used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln. Lath nail a slender nail for fastening laths.

Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.

f or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.