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as, the next heir was an infant. The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. Ruth ii. 20.

A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.

A ferruginous variety of rutile.

ion; -- used both literally and figuratively. It must contain within itself a nucleus of truth. I. Taylor.

A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed. "I have an oath in heaven" Shak. An oath of secrecy for the concealing of those [inventions] which we think fit to keep secret. Bacon.

nt; as, I have no objection to going; unreasonable objections. "Objections against every truth." Tyndale.

In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly. "Truth obliquely leveled." Bp. Fell. Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray. Pope His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from others. Addison.

Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth. [R.] Cotgrave.

Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence.

A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut.

hed for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent. I am no orator, as Brutus is. Shak. Some orator renowned In Athens or free Rome. Milton.

nt in, or resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.

A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.

To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public. "Truth will out." Shak.

Foreign; outlandish. [Obs.] Strutt.

he times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. Acts xvii. 30 (Rev. Ver. ) They overlook truth in the judgments they pass. Atterbury. The pardoning and overlooking of faults. Addison.

To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.

trifle. Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak. Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power. Tennyson.

A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss. Panel game, a method of stealing money in a panel house. -- Panel house, a house of prostitution in which the rooms have secret entrances to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates. -- Panel saw, handsaw with fine teeth, --…

ator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]