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ss and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut. Pope. He became a confirmed sloven. Macaulay.

The quality or state of being slovenly.

Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress. A slovenly, lazy fellow, bolling at his ease. L'Estrange.

Slovenliness. [Obs.] Fuller.

Slovenliness. [Obs.] Shak.

Remembrance. [Obs.] Of his way he had no sovenance. Spenser.

Not covenable; inconvenient. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Tim. iv. 7).

Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a covenant, agreement, or contract. Bp. Horsley.

p. p. of Weave. Woven paper, or Wove paper, writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

A man who violates his religious covenant. Jer. ix. 2.

in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Ps. lxxxix. 34.

ltering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.

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

A small tree or shrub. [Obs.] Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.

aced the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant.

A piece so adapted; a transcription; as, a pianoforte arrangement of Beethoven's symphonies; an orchestral arrangement of a song, an opera, or the like.

pestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.