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The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness.

Pleasantness; agreeableness. See Jocundity. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

Pertaining to, or having, lacunæ; as, a lacunar circulation.

The ceiling or under surface of any part, especially when it consists of compartments, sunk or hollowed without spaces or bands between the panels. Gwilt

A lacuna. [R.] Landor.

Furrowed or pitted; having shallow cavities or lacunæ; as, a lacunose leaf.

One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.

Exceedingly or excessively cunning.

Pecuniary. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward. Burke.

Abounding in money; wealthy; rich. [Obs.] Sherwood.

A term collectively applied to the changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the ovum undergoes before fecundation.

Of or pertaining to prefecundation.

Having the form of a quincunx.

In the manner or order of a quincunx.

A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in æstivation. See Quincuncial, 2.

Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. "His rubicund face." Longfellow.

The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness. To parade your rubicundity and gray hairs. Walpole.