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Not capable of being replevied.

- unsaturated, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons

outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial. Come forth to view The issue of the exploit. Shak. While it is hot, I 'll put it to the issue. Shak.

See Jointress. Bouvier.

Revolving around the planet Jupiter; appearing as viewed from Jupiter. [R.] J. R. Hind.

hen, before whom, and (in English practice), where, it was sworn or affirmed. Wharton. Bouvier.

right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll. Bouvier. Wharton.

rdarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies. Totten.

ep company with one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.] -- To keep counsel. See under Counsel, n. -- To keep down. (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.

Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge. "Beyond his ken." Longfellow. Above the reach and ken of a mortal apprehension. South. It was relief to quit the ken And the inquiring looks of men. Trench.

ed commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money. Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn. Arbuthnot.

or the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the imp…

hey knew him. Luke xxiv. 31. To know Faithful friend from flattering foe. Shak. At nearer view he thought he knew the dead. Flatman.

A lively Polish dance. See Cracovienne.

To come into view; to appear. [Scot.] It kythes bright . . . because all is dark around it. Sir W. Scott.

f, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract. Go view the land, even Jericho. Josh. ii. 1. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

t farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a reconstruction of the land laws. -- Land"*lea`guer (#), n. -- Land"*lea`guism (#), n.

A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage (Crystallog.), cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation (Math.), an equation of the first degree. [Obs.] -- Lateral line (Anat.), in fishes, a line of sensory organs along either side of the body, often marked by a distinct line…

A slight withdrawal from view or knowledge. Sir W. Hamilton.