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or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle. Chapman.

Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity. Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 2 Chron. xxix. 5.

prehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.

en of respect, submission, or, in an engagement, of surrender. -- Yellow flag, the quarantine flag of all nations; also carried at a vessel's fore, to denote that an infectious disease is on board.

A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss. Gwilt.

That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the co…

ty of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering. Have a continent forbearance, till the speed of his rage goeShak.

producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term. He was, in the full force of the words, a good man. Macaulay.

The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o

To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine. [Obs.] Spenser.

ument consisting consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

ife and spirit of religion. As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes, as libertines from wits. Young.

Predestined. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.

Foxiness; craftiness. [R.] Shak.

one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke. [R.]

A strong, musty smell; mustiness.

A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).