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Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.

xible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt.

An intermission. [R.]

The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.

Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan. -- n. sing. & pl.

See 2d Scup.

The shoulder. [Scot.]

Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar. To a landsman, these tarpaulins, as they were called, seemed a strange and half-savage race. Macaulay.

The rhinocerous bird (a).

To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14.

onplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny. Jesus, . . . whom Paul affirmed to be alive. Acts xxv. 19.

shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.] Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. Trumbull.

ecclesiastical authority. The Jewish nation were an anathema destined to destruction. St. Paul . . . says he could wish, to save them from it, to become an anathema, and be destroyed himself. Locke. Anathema Maranatha Etym: (see 1 Cor. xvi. 22), an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema…

tion at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.]

6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc. Batten door (Arch.), a door made of boards of the whole length of the door, secured by battens nail…

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.