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erwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

To cite; to summon. [Obs.] Our heralds now accited all that were Endamaged by the Elians. Chapman.

increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

is corrected, usually by means of a compound or achromatic object glass, and which gives images free from extraneous color.

Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

e points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, "aglet baby" (Shak.), an aglet image.

r bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser.

A distorted image.

An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror.

A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI. [Obs.]

sible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift.

ining to anthropopathy. [R.] -- An`thro*po*path"ic*al*ly, adv. The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. H. Rogers.

An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure. Woven with antics and wild imagery. Spenser.

; as, the archives of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb.

state of being jointed; connection of parts. [R.] That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge.

gs off the coast. Ascribe is used equally in both these senses, but involves a different image. To impute usually denotes to ascribe something doubtful or wrong, and hence, in general literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impute unworthy motives. The theological sense of impute is not here taken into view. More…