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Destiny; fate. [Written also kismat.] [Oriental]

Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable. "Minute drops." Milton.

To mutiny. [Obs.]

One guilty of mutiny.

Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate. The city was becoming mutinous. Macaulay. -- Mu"ti*nous*ly, adv. -- Mu"ti*nous*ness, n.

With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly.

The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.

To put down; to crush out; to suppress. [Obs.] The mutiny he there hastes to oppress. Shak.

A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny. Carlyle

To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand. A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him. Barrow.

ndicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the…

a streamlet; a brook. To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest. Lowell.

A mouring garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural. "Sables wove by destiny." Young.

or the fire; but some relics of it took sanctuary under ground, and escaped the common destiny. Dryden. Wildlife sanctuary, a tract of land set aside by law for the preservation of wildlife, in which no hunting is permitted.

rcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties. Chaucer. A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples. Addison. Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity. Rambler. The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. Collier.

Discoverable by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination. [R.] r. H. More.

Search; scrutiny. [Obs.]

To make scrutiny.

Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable. [R.] "Shunless destiny." Shak.

Chance; lot; destiny. [Obs.] By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance]. Chaucer. Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. Shak.