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A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-…

advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude. Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan. To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp. Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assemb…

ed; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war. Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge To this I answer in one word, from experience. Locke. Experience may be acqu…

Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom. Exterior angle (Geom.), the angle included between any side of a triangle or polygon and the prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outsi…

foreign nations; as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.

pregnancy in which the fetus is not in the uterus, but in the Fallopian tube or in the abdominal cavity.

Lying outside of the domain of logic. -- Ex`tra*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

ra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. It is reddish yellow and about the size of the domestic cat, but with a more slender body and shorter legs.

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .

lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.

. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.

Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. "Familiar feuds." Byron.

familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.

Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. [Obs.] Milton.

p., one who has a wife and children living with him andd dependent upon him. (b) A man of domestic habits. "The Jews are generally, when married, most exemplary family men." Mayhew. -- Family of curves or surfaces (Geom.), a group of curves or surfaces derived from a single equation. -- In a family way, like one belo…

Domestic; familiar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.

on; befriending. But found no favor in his lady's eyes. Dryden. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke ii. 52.

to congratulate. Every true heart must felicitate itself that its lot is cast in this kingdom. W. Howitt.

A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.