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etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.

oliday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. Southey.

knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

ntury. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.

f with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs. South.

The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.

Put in action; actuated. [Obs.] South.

r right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

Hostile. [R.] Southey.

e it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

xpedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

The southwest wind. Milton.

To frighten. [Archaic] "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.

Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.

Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

made minutes an age." Tennyson. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.