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the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being graduates of the Naval Academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign.

The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.

hose in mediæval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.

The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever. [Obs.] Spenser. De Quincey. Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Rivers.

To serve unfaithfully.

ns and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers. Addis & Arnold.

To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. [Obs.] Donne.

discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII. Strutt.

Obedient; obsequious. [Obs.] Brathwait.

Of or pertaining to the Mohammedans; Mohammedan; as, Moslem lands; the Moslem faith.

or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.

Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.

The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump. Natch bone, the edgebone, or aitchbone, in beef.

An idiom, trait, or character peculiar to any nation.

true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.

Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. Prov. xx. 14. Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else. Shak. Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker.

ms does not affect mixed marriages (those between Roman Catholics and persons of another faith) in Germany.

At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh. My wife! my traitress! let her not come near me. Milton.

and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism.