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In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser.

The quality or state of being praiseworthy.

Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot.

um. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra. African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus. -- Jamaica rosewood, the wood of two West Indian trees (Amyris balsamifera, and Linocieria ligustrina). -- New South Wales rosewood, the wood of Trichilia glandulosa…

The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacæcia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds.

Roseroot.

To undo, as something sewn, or something inclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of.

A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat. [The exploits] of the ancient saints . . . do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. Barrow. The highest achievements of the human intellect. Macaulay.

From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.

Praiseworthy; laudable. [Obs.] Hacket.

Worthy pf applause; praiseworthy. [Obs.]

mething attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).

To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam.

k in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.

A protecting ruffle or frill, as of silk or lace, sewed close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside.

- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. Shak.

go a-begging, a figurative phrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging.

one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.