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ming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.

plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions. Burnet saxifrage, a European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga). -- Golden saxifrage, a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) growing in rivulets in Europe; also, C. Americanum, common in…

the common eel. -- Silver fir (Bot.), a coniferous tree (Abies pectinata) found in mountainous districts in the middle and south of Europe, where it often grows to the height of 100 or 150 feet. It yields Burgundy pitch and Strasburg turpentine. -- Silver foil, foil made of silver. -- Silver fox (Zoöl.), a variety…

Corruption; cause of corruption. [Archaic] Villainous company hath been the spoil of me. Shak.

Villainous. [Obs.] "Vileyns sinful deeds make a churl." Chaucer.

Villainous. [R.] Shak.

The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." Chaucer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. Shak.

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