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Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. Burrill.

g sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon. [Written also dhony, doney, and done.]

In plain terms; without ceremony. We shall chide downright, id I longer stay. Shak.

A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.

o spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours" Dryden.

A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.

om the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.

To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony. Wiseman.

A mineral consisting of antimony and silver.

Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention. Dionysius . . . would give no ear to his suit. Bacon. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. Shak. About the ears, in close proximity to; near at hand. -- By the ears, in close contest; as, to set by the ears; to fall together by the ears; to be by the ears.…

Consisting of ebony.

One who works in ebony.

To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.

taining to the household; domestic. "In this economical misfortune [of ill-assorted matrimony.]" Milton.

expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste. "Economists even to parsimony." Burke.

rudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. Political economy. See under Political.

Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.

Belonging to, or resembling, egophony.

Agrimony (Agrimonia Eupatoria). [Obs.] Chaucer.

parated and indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.