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A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. Bescherelle.

A disdanful manner.

A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

Containing caverns. The wolves yelled on the caverned hill. Byron.

Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.

Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. Black.

Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.

A vessel for heating water. [Obs.] Johnson.

A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.

A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water. "The wide cisterns of the lakes." Blackmore.

See Cittern.

like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] Shak.

Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. Marsion

The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

Equally eternal. -- Co`e*ter"nal*ly, adv. Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. Milton.

Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.

The cocoanut.

The relation of a godfather to a person. [Obs.] The relation of gossipred or compaternity by the cannon law is a spiritual affinity. Sir J. Da

to be of importance to. Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts xxviii. 31. Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. Addison. It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius…

Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.