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The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South.

Angry; malignant. [Obs.] Bp. Morton.

neral; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith.

The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.

A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a d…

The neck or throat. [Obs.] Do me hangen by the hals. Chaucer.

To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet. [Obs.] Each other kissed glad And lovely halst. Spenser.

Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough. [Obs.] Carew.

See Hawser. Pope.

To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden. [R.]

Same as Calcimine.

Tears; also, lachrymal feelings or organs. [Colloq.]

A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance.

ison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. [Eng.] Court of Marshalsea, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between the king's domestic servants. Blackstone.

The office of a marshal.

The people who lived in the Middle Ages. Ruskin.

One's birth, or the circumstances attending it. [Obs.] Fitz- Geffry.

Naval affairs. [Obs.]

Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals. Shipley.

The old name of the aromatic resinous juice of the Balsamodendron opobalsamum, now commonly called balm of Gilead. See under Balm.