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Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.

A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence. The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. Cowper.

A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entrée of a house.

p., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.

Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.

as of the carapace of crabs. Epigastric region. (Anat.) (a) The whole upper part of the abdomen. (b) An arbitrary division of the abdomen above the umbilical and between the two hypochondriac regions.

The upper part of the abdomen.

rs ages, . . . divers epochs of time were used. Usher. Great epochs and crises in the kingdom of God. Trench. The acquittal of the bishops was not the only event which makes the 30th of June, 1688, a great epoch in history. Macaulay.

celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.

The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like. The . . . word essence . . . scarcely underwent a more complete transformation when from being the…

h is a decision of judgment. It is the commencement of affection." Gogan. No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price. Cowper.

em; regard; honor. I shall have estimation among multitude, and honor with the elders. Wisdom viii. 10.

The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule. Wright.

f words; to deduce words from their simple roots. How perilous it is to etymologize at random. Trench.

el. [R.] Above all, the Servians . . . read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom. Londor.

A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen.

ing others, these were great; Thou, greater still, must these excel. Prior. I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. Eccl. ii. 13.

The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc.