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An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan. -- Clan"nish*ly, adv. -- Clan"nish*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit. -- Cli"*quish*ness, n.

Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent. "For servecy, no lady closer." Shak.

Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.

Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson.

all sunflower; rosinweed. Its lower and root leaves are vertical, and on the prairies are disposed to present their edges north and south. Its leaves are turned to the north as true as the magnet: This is the compass flower. Longefellow. -- Compass saw, a saw with a narrow blade, which will cut in a curve; -- called al…

Disposed to compliance or obedience; ready to follow directions; submissive; compliant.

Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest. Having food rainment, let us be therewith content. 1 Tim. vi. 8.

Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse. While young, humane, conversable, and kind. Cowper.

Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious. Macualay.

Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. Jer. vi. 22,23.

attle. He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fixed the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest. Akenside.

In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.

etter office, a department of the general post office where dead letters are examined and disposed of. -- Dead level, a term applied to a flat country. -- Dead lift, a direct lift, without assistance from mechanical advantage, as from levers, pulleys, etc.; hence, an extreme emergency. "(As we say) at a dead lift." R…

A Linnæan class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

t for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the merid…

To lack affection for; to be alienated from, or indisposed toward; to dislike. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.