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Uttered or done again; repeated. [Obs.] Bp. Gardiner.

The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace.

of Calotropis and Faramea. [Written also jessamine.] Cape jasmine, or Cape jessamine, the Gardenia florida, a shrub with fragrant white flowers, a native of China, and hardy in the Southern United States.

Disposed to suspect rivalry in matters of interest and affection; apprehensive regarding the motives of possible rivals, or the fidelity of friends; distrustful; having morbid fear of rivalry in love or preference given to another; painfully suspicious of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. If the spirit of je…

n or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public place or in a garden, for ornament.

An object regarded with special affection; a precious thing. "Our prince (jewel of children)." Shak.

A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment. "Judgments are prepared for scorners." Prov. xix. 29. "This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble." Shak.

kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. [Scot.] Kail yard, a kitchen garden. [Scot.]

d upon; to have the care of; to tend. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. Gen. ii. 15. In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.

A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. Kitchen garden. See under Garden. -- Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] " A brazen tub of kitchen lee." Ford. -- Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne.

A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc. "Garden knots." Bacon. Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.

Having intersecting lines or figures. The west corner of thy curious knotted garden. Shak.

rly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. Milton.

intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.

A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.

One of a series of organic compounds, regarded as anhydrides of certain hydroxy acids. In general, they are colorless liquids, having a weak aromatic odor. They are so called because the typical lactone is derived from lactic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an organic amido acid, which is regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea.

dium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).

A laggard.