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ich permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies. [Written also cenogamy.]

One who describes or writes about comets.

o sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith.

One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.

Tending to corrupt; full of corruption. [Obs.] "Corruptful bribes." Spenser.

One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth. The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.

A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill. The world-wide custom of the couvade, where at childbirth the husband undergoes medical treatment, in many cases being put to bed for days. Tylor.

s. You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. Hobbes. The chief priets and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1.

orth American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.

The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. [Written also Dacotahs.]

One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.

to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.

One who describes.

One who makes a diatribe or diatribes.

One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others. Locke.

One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

res. -- Dirt eating. (a) The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism. Humboldt. (b) (Med.) Same as Chthonophagia. -- Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. Otway (1684). -- To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat h…