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Fond of woman. [R.] Charles Reade.

A fondness for women. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Condition of being a mulier; position of one born in lawful wedlock.

d to render such a force or action appreciable or measurable when feeble. See Thermomultiplier.

One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is. Bentley.

A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.

One who rallies.

One who relies.

One who replies. Bacon.

A coarse cloth made of hemp, and used for packing goods, etc. [Written also sarpelere.] Tyrwhitt.

One who supplies.

One who keeps tally.

Same as Thermopile.

One who works at a willying machine.

Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page. "That was said above." Dryden.

come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. -- Acceleration of the planets, the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee to the perigee of their orbits.

nt fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.

Earlier form of Acknow. [Obs.] To be aknow, to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.]

The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait. [Obs.] The ambush arose quickly out of their place. Josh. viii. 19. To lay an ambush, to post a force in ambush.