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The main bronchus of each lung.

Mistaken obedience; disobedience. [Obs.] Milton.

To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.

One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.

Connected with both the nose and the mouth; as, the nasobuccal groove in the skate.

One of the Prosobranchiata.

The highest division, or subclass, of gastropod mollusks, including those that have the gills situated anteriorly, or forward of the heart, and the sexes separate.

r thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. Jer. Taylor.

f. [Prep. phrase.] Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Eph. v. 6.

ncipally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.

The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of…

Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

um, or pertaining to the Buccinidæ, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.

ke the eye of a cat. The mane is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.

lace, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.

Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self- possessed. The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate, Composed his posture, and his look sedate. Pope. -- Com*pos"ed*ly (, adv. -- Com*pos"ed*ness, n.

Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other. Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. The wisest and most considerate men in the world…

Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

ing contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities. place the prospect of the soul In sober contrast with reality. Wordsworth.

Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient. There is another very, efficacious method for subding the most obstinate, contumacious sinner. Hammond.