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Having, or leading, two ways. Bivious theorems and Janus-faced doctrines. Sir T. Browne.

A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse. [R.] "A fine burst of country." Jane Austen.

(Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

worthy causes; generosity. The heathen poet, in commending the charity of Dido to the Trojans, spake like a Christian. Dryden.

bs.] [Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.] His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.

of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).

ign. We find them complotting together, and contriving a new scence of miseries to the Trojans. Pope.

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

The office or lodge of a concierge or janitor.

To give in charge; to commit; to intrust. Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. Addison.

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in. The Trojans coopet within their walls so long. Dryden. The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the understanding up within narrow bounds. Locke.

rcle. -- Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. Milman.

Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus. [East Indies]

Trojan.

Controversy; disputation; discussion. [Archaic] Verbose janglings and endless disceptations. Strype.

To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse. If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding. Sir W. Scott.

One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

An annoyance to the ear. [R.] The perpetual jangling of the chimes . . . is no small earsore Sir T. Browne.

send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate. Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng. Dryden. The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever. Keble.