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An expressed wish; a request; petition. And slowly was my mother brought To yield consent to my desire. Tennyson.

dy or brain were in every case followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order. H. Spencer.

an heraldic bearing. Knights-errant used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields. Addison. A banner with this strange device -Excelsior. Longfellow.

A devotee. [Obs.] Sheldon.

On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side. Dexter chief, or Dexter point (Her.), a point in the dexter upper corner of the shield, being in the dexter extremity of the chief, as A in the cut. -…

asic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.

Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc., which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet.

Yielding diamonds.

The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.

To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.] Beaconsfield.

A day on which courts are not held, as Sunday or any legal holiday.

other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.

impression made by violence; a dent. Dryden. Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]. Tennyson.

Any of the festivals held in honor of the Olympian god Dionysus. They correspond to the Roman Bacchanalia; the greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of both tragedies and comedies.

An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.

o the line of troops or to the parapet aimed at. -- Direct process (Metal.), one which yields metal in working condition by a single process from the ore. Knight. -- Direct tax, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and polls, distinguished from taxes on merchandise, or customs, and from excise.

A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.

To yield or give up; to depart. [Obs.] I dare not discede from my copy a tittle. Fuller.

by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference. And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. Prov. vii. 7. Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. Beattie. I wake, and I disc…

scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat. And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field. Spenser.