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Probity; integrity; honesty. Woodward.

factious opposition to legitimate government. Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.

Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.

A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus.

An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a collection of obituary notices.

llegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.

A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.

A genus of trilobites found in the Silurian and Devonian formations. Phacops bufo is one of the most common species.

The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. See Illust. of Limulus and Trilobite.

De Quincey. His name has thus become, throughout all civilized countries, a synonym for probity and philanthropy. Macaulay. In popular literary acceptation, and as employed in special dictionaries of such words, synonyms are words sufficiently alike in general signification to be liable to be confounded, but yet so dif…

became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites. Macaulay.

A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.