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A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England.

Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom. [Obs.]

ion of anything; as, a master of oratorical art. Great masters of ridicule. Maccaulay. No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it. Locke.

nd or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.

To regard as important; to take account of; to care for. [Obs.] He did not matter cold nor hunger. H. Brooke.

Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.

One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. [Eng.] Dickens.

Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless. Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth. Shak.

Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child. "Most mischievous foul sin." Shak. This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society. South.

corably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly. Swift.

acted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman. Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul). Cowper.

hial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.

es marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

ath or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew.

Hysterical passion; hysteria. [Obs.] Shak. Mother Carey's chicken (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small petrels, as the stormy petrel (Procellaria pelagica), and Leach's petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), both of the Atlantic, and O. furcata of the North Pacific. -- Mother Carey's goose (Zoöl.), the giant fulmar o…

ther; like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care. Hooker.

s, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares. It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they uttery neglect method in their harangues. I. Watts. A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on high. Longfellow.

To be in a careless, secure state. Wyclif. I took thee napping, unprepared. Hudibras.

A taking by surprise; an unexpected onset or attack. Carew.

A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd. Dryden.