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vation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.

Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.

fit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale. They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator. To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of t…

Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.

The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.

in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.…

At intervals of a minute; very often and regularly. J. Philips. Minutely proclaimed in thunder from heaven. Hammond.

An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.

Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious. "Valor misbegot." Shak.

Irregularity; disorder. [Obs.] Camden.

Irregular; disorderly. [Obs.]

Wrong or irregular proceding.

cted by missionaries. (b) A school for the religious instruction of children not having regular church privileges.

Movables; furniture; -- also used in the singular (moeble). [Obs.] Chaucer.

Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna.

, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." Chaucer. Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so strict a rule of life as monks are. Ayliffe.

king to, or of, a man; Mr. or Sir. [Represented by the abbreviation M. or Mons. in the singular, and by MM. or Messrs. in the plural.]

A publication which appears regularly once a month.

Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular. He gat more money. Chaucer. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton.

hem.), the impure or complex residual solution which remains after the salts readily or regularly crystallizing have been removed. -- Mother queen, the mother of a reigning sovereign; a queen mother. -- Mother tongue. (a) A language from which another language has had its origin. (b) The language of one's native land…