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ify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." [Obs.] Smollett.

On horseback. Two suspicious fellows ahorseback. Smollet.

In the open-air. Smollett.

Using both hands with equal ease. Smollett.

A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. Smollett.

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

, in order to ascertain a majority . . . persuaded the queen to create twelve new peers. Smollett. The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation. Gibbon.

An asiphonate mollusk.

A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.

A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.

A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.

To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.

A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish

merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. Smollett.

Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium verum. -- White bedstraw is G. mollugo.