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To surpass in juggling.

Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.

Same as Quadrijugous.

Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; as, a quadrijugous leaf.

Having the two things that are conjugate parts of the same figure; as, self-conjugate triangles.

and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish. He subjugated a king, and called him his "vassal." Baker.

The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.

One who subjugates; a conqueror.

In three pairs; as, a trijugate leaf, or a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.

Same as Trijugate.

Having but one pair of leaflets; -- said of a pinnate leaf.

merly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. All his affections are set on his own country. Macaulay.

A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

and the minor axis, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the transverse axis and the conjugate axis. -- Axis of a lens, the straight line passing through its center and perpendicular to its surfaces. -- Axis of a telescope or microscope, the straight line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses which com…

One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf.

Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.

A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World. Yellow bugle, the Ajuga chamæpitys.

An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.