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her kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to conservative system.

Assigning the species of a general term.

tion in the body politic; public commotion; tumult. The disturbance was made to support a general accusation against the province. Bancroft.

honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain. Bentley.

Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.

from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.

Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.

public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret. Divulge not such a love as mine. Cowper.

, it may be used with the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. "To live and die is all we have to do." Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive…

General manager; factotum. Under him, Dunstan was the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things. Fuller.

the real character may be easily taught in a few days. Boyle. The docibleness of dogs in general. Walton.

A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.

Distribution; dealing; apportionment. At her general dole, Each receives his ancient soul. Cleveland.

A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.

A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.

A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.

mount or sovereign ownership. Public domain, the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. [U.S.]in the public domain may be used by anyone wihout restriction. -- Right of eminent domain, that superior dominion of the sovereign power over all the property within the state, including th…

enalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments. Burrill.