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A Linnæan order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.

art of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.

en in their social character; ethics. The end of morality is to procure the affections to obey reason, and not to invade it. Bacon. The system of morality to be gathered out of ... ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. Swift.

Obedient. [Obs.]

Obsequiousness; obedience. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Obedient; obsequious. [Obs.] Brathwait.

res, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity. Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God. South.

A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.

Consisting of, or having, many lobes.

n number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to. Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience. Ames.

; alteration, either in form or qualities. The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument. Bacon.

To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority.

the name of. (a) In behalf of; by the authority of. " I charge you in the duke's name to obey me." Shak.

ndogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.

The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.

Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.

etermining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy.

vast, diffused, revolving nebula, which, gradually cooling and contracting, threw off, in obedience to mechanical and physical laws, succesive rings of matter, from which subsequently, by the same laws, were produced the several planets, satellites, and other bodies of the system. The phrase may indicate any hypothesis…

lender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. Dipping needle. See under Dipping. -- Needle bar, the reciprocating bar to which the needle of a sewing machine is attached. -- Needle beam (Arch.), to shoring, the horizontal cross timber which goes through the wa…

An easy, unceremonious attire; undress; also, a kind of easy robe or dressing gown worn by women.