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e and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.

A member of the Washingtonian Society.

A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water. Remembering he had passed over a small water a poor scholar when first coming to the university, he kneeled. Fuller.

rits of the waste and weald Moan as she fled. Tennyson. Weald clay (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden.

or keep from scattering, as hounds in a hurt; hence, to collect, or to keep together, as member of a party, or the like. -- To whip the cat. (a) To practice extreme parsimony. [Prov. Eng.] Forby. (b) To go from house to house working by the day, as itinerant tailors and carpenters do. [Prov. & U. S.]…

, one who enforces the discipline of a party, and urges the attendance and support of the members on all necessary occasions.

A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.

ics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids.

Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying. Specifically: (Zoöl.)

the members of the national, or king's, council which sat to assist the king in administrative and judicial matters; also, the council.

A division of the Caucasian races, comprising the lighter- colored members.

ng known as the Yazoo Frauds Act, because of alleged corruption of the legislature, every member but one being a shareholder in one or more of the companies. The act granting the land was repealed in 1796 by a new legislature, and the repealing provision was incorporated in the State constitution in…

ws as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth. Yeast cake, a mealy cake impregnated with the live germs of the yeast plant, and used…

A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry. [Eng.]

Any member of the tribe of Zulus; a Zulu-Kaffir. See Zulus.

A member of the Bantu race comprising the Zulus and the Kaffirs.