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A supervisor. [Obs.]

The worship of Vishnu.

To violate; to ravish. Spenser.

A large constellation in the southern hemisphere, called also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela.

der by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism.

One of the ova or eggs of a fish. Travis. In berry, containing ova or spawn.

An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.) Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.

Blessed. "This patriarch blest." Milton. White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. Trumbull.

A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

o neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient. -- To cast away. (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and sunk." Shak. -- To cast by, to reject; to dismiss or discard; to t…

A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk. Their lavish comment when her name was named. Tennyson.

To violate; to ravish. [Obs.] Shak.

To ravish; to debauch. Burton.

The act of ravishing; violation; defilement. Bp. Hall.

oicest ornament. He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him. Jer. Taylor.

One who deflours; a ravisher.

Serving to deter. "The deterrent principle." E. Davis.

Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust. To get dishonest gain. Ezek. xxii. 27. The dishonest profits of men in office. Bancroft.

To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. Bp. Burnet.