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With ease. [Prov. Eng.]

A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.

The sea-sand reed. See under Reed.

A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.

Not decreed.

Not distinguished by a pedigree. [R.] Pollok.

To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed.

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Careless freedom or ease; abandon. [R.] Carlyle.

; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.

, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

s to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, wi…

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. Dana.

To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

ment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches. Language . . . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

gree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.

ermissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.