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tions; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child. Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. Is. lxv. 14. I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. Shak.

A group of fishes, established by Agassiz, characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial.

Growing upward, as distinguished from a laterral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals. Dana.

Blameworthiness. [Obs.] Banished out of the realme . . . without culpe. E. Hall.

The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf.Cult, 2.

- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distingushed from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese. Curds and cream, the flower of country fare. Dryden.

Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.

Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.

Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment. Shak. A formal customary attendance upon the offices. South.

rates (Railroads, etc.), to reduce the charges for transportation below the rates established between competing lines. -- To cut short, to arrest or check abruptly; to bring to a sudden termination. "Achilles cut him short, and thus replied." Dryden. -- To cut stick, to make off clandestinely or precipitately. [Slan…

A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

One of a school of philosophers, established at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.

The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus. -- Cy`to*plas"mic (-pl, a.

fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. "Under coverlets made of dagswain." Holinshed.

ether; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damasc appearance. -- Damascus steel. See Damask steel, under Damask, a.

A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge. A Daniel come to judgment. Shak.

A shell or cup of pastry filled with custard, whipped cream, crushed macaroons, etc.