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A species of pine (Pinus sylvestris), and its wood, which affords a valuable timber; -- called also Scotch pine, and red or yellow deal. It grows in all parts of Europe, in the Caucasus, and in Siberia.

Destitute of right. Sylvester.

While things were just ripe for a war. Addison. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies. Burke.

return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practic…

A rivulet. [R.] Sylvester.

To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green. The sage Chaldeans robed in white appeared. Pope. Such was his power over the expression of his countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring. Wirt.…

To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark. [Local, U.S.]

Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. 2 Sam. iii. 31. Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe. Sandys.

A apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.

A work in the Persian tongue, being a summary of the Zend- Avesta, or sacred books.

in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch. [Obs.] Milton.

A loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders and devout persons.

To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority. To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant bends. Tickell.

ic doctrines or philosophy. The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. J. P. Smith.

Any branch or departament of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.

One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant. [Recent]

The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest. [Prov. Eng.]

The season proper for sowing. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. Gen. viii. 22.

Vested with large powers; independent.