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of all the lands of a kingdom. Graunt. Table of contents, or Contents, a table or list of topics in a book, showing their order and the place where they may be found: a summary.

f this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

inal; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin. "No counterfeit gem." Robinson (More's Utopia).

Cowardly. [Obs.] " A base and a cowardish mind." Robynson (More's Utopia).

ak. Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute. Robynson (More's Utopia).

lleys, etc.; hence, an extreme emergency. "(As we say) at a dead lift." Robynson (More's Utopia). -- Dead line (Mil.), a line drawn within or around a military prison, to cross which involves for a prisoner the penalty of being instantly shot. -- Dead load (Civil Engin.), a constant, motionless load, as the weight of…

ntific term. They define virtue to be life ordered according to nature. Robynson (More's Utopia).

mposition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.

g an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.

ng thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. Robynson (More's Utopia). To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. -- To dig from, out of, out, or up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a t…

ee Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest. A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. Sir W. Jones. They made a sort of institute and digest of…

degrade; to abase; to weaken. This doth nothing diminish their opinion. Robynson (More's Utopia). I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. Ezek. xxix. 15. O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads. Milton.

A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. Robynson (More's Utopia).

vest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work. Robynson (More's Utopia).

ryden. A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people. Robynson (More's Utopia).

; discordant; different. Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. Robynson (More's Utopia).

The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor. Robynson (More's Utopia).

lave] should be described by the rounding of his head, and his earmark. Robynson (More's Utopia). A set of intellectual ideas . . . have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor. Burrow.

Same as Ectopia.

Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.