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e a level surface; as, moving fluids seek a level. When merit shall find its level. F. W. Robertson.

lecherous; lustful. Robert of Brunne. -- Lick"er*ish*ly, adv. -- Lick"er*ish*ness, n.

include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc. "In linen white as milk." Robert of Brunne.

, an Indian's lodge. Chaucer. Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build]. Robert of Brunne. O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! Cowper.

manner. "Lovely to look on." Piers Plowman. Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely. Robert of Brunne. If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers. Shak.

time all the monarchs of Europe were satisfied with the appellation of Highness or Grace. Robertson.

Frequently; often. [Obs.] Robert of Brunne.

A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel. [British Slang] See Bobby.

ing politics, we often mean that they are wrangling about some mere party question. F. W. Robertson.

ogether); to enchain. [Obs.] Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led Together prisoned. Robert of Brunne.

tion of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents. Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed. Spenser.

ial reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses. F. W. Robertson.

The state or condition of having recoiled. The recoil from formalism is skepticism. F. W. Robertson.

. [Archaic] From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection. Robertson.

's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand. Robertson. This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate. Addison.

nderstanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. F. W. Robertson.

A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.

The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Christ. F. W. Robertson.

To separate; to divide. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.] Robert of Brunne.