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he council. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols 2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke.

The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast th…

Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle. "Our ancient bickerings." Shak. Remove not the ancient landmarks, which thy fathers have set. Prov. xxii. 28. An ancient man, strangely habited, asked for quarters. Scott.

Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.

hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift.

ng furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat. Chambers.

Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.

Hard, indurated clay; bind. Bends of a ship, the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They have the beams, knees, and foothooks bolted to them. Also, the frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides; as, the midship bend.

Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron. Kirwan.

Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.

A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland. And pbonnets waving high. Sir W. Scott.

Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.

Short in duration. How brief the life of man. Shak.

grows in the Middle and Western United States, and its wood is tough, close-grained, and durable. -- Bur reed (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sparganium, having long ribbonlike leaves.

flowers in dense heads. -- Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. -- To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.

ss; to prop; to brace firmly. To set it upright again, and to prop and buttress it up for duration. Burke.

Hardenes; indurated. "A callous hand." Goldsmith. "A callous ulcer." Dunglison.

anide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.