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osition in a series, or of degree, rate, or value; as, with the thermometer at 80º; goods sold at a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is short at the longest.

The things sold by auction or put up to auction. Ask you why Phryne the whole auction buys Pope.

Developed from an independent center of ossification. Owen. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.

Goods sold by weight. [Obs.]

wker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.

The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone.

A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.

nstrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.

A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.

To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

ficant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. They have troops of soldiers at their beck. Shak.

A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.

An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.

rch (B. lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold.

e first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii. 16.