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See Abundant number, under Abundant. Brande & C. -- Perfect tense (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or state completed.

men, impaneled to try causes at the bar of a court; -- so called in distinction from the grand jury. -- Petit larceny, the stealing of goods of, or under, a certain specified small value; -- opposed to grand larceny. The distinction is abolished in England. -- Petit maître (. Etym: [F., lit., little master.] A fop; a…

psy, with momentary faintness or unconsciousness, but without convulsions; -- opposed to grand mal.

One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.

thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys. Dumb piano. See Digitorium. -- Grand piano. See under Grand. -- Square piano, one with a horizontal frame and an oblong case. -- Upright piano, one with an upright frame and vertical wires.

and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda. We walk by the obelisk, and meditate in piazzas. Jer. Taylor.

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

or hole. They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave. T. Grander.

, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state. Brande & C.

Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary way; as, a plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.

To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.

A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation. Bartlett.

A ruminant having solid horns or antlers, as the deer. Brande & C.

ed for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities. Brande & C.

One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. Brande & C.

In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors. Brande & C.

Grand and dignified; in grand style.

Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.

A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also Spongiæ, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The principal divisions are Calcispongiæ, Keratosa or Fibrospongiæ, and Silicea.

A corollary. Brande & C.