Search the Dictionary

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on). The Lord shall add to me another son. Gen. xxx. 24.

ister the government or the state. For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

Action; endeavor. [Obs.] And with his best affair Obeyed the pleasure of the Sun. Chapman.

To dispose or incline. Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton.

Anything given as a help; bestowal. [Obs.]

Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all. [Obs.] Chaucer.

o each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Johnson.

Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.

Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.

cium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.…

ms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constructed.

e thing to another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

ther. He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. Macaulay.

Government by the best citizens.

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle. So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arrang…

fully contrived work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth.

Than. [Obs. & R.] The king was not more forward to bestow favors on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors. Fuller.

In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.

nce, personal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.