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stands erect. With comely carriage of her countenance trim. Spenser. So deemed I till I viewed their trim array Of boats last night. Trench.

A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like.

Occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as, a triweekly newspaper. -- adv.

Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural. Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars. Shak. His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines. Macaulay.

The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.

Troy weight. Troy weight, the weight which gold and silver, jewels, and the like, are weighed. It was so named from Troyes, in France, where it was first adopted in Europe. The troy ounce is supposed to have been brought from Cairo during the crusades. In this weight the pound is divided into 12 ounces, the ounce into…

Deceit; fraud. [Obs.] Grenewey.

To skewer; to make fast, as the wings of a fowl to the body in cooking it.

A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait.

vated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.

faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed. As when the sun . . . from behind the moon, In dim eclipse. disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. The twilight of probability. Locke.

light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. These stars not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures. Sir I. Newton. The western sky twinkled with stars. Sir W. Scott.

ombre, and umbrine. Umbra tree (Bot.), a tree (Phytolacca diocia) of the same genus as pokeweed. It is native of South America, but is now grown in southern Europe. It has large dark leaves, and a somber aspect. The juice of its berries is used for coloring wine. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

Umpirage; arbitrament. Jewel.

or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease. Burrill.

A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.

One who advocates the undulatory theory of light. Whewell.

as been uniform from early ages; the temperature is uniform; a stratum of uniform clay. Whewell.

All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation. How may I Adore thee, Author of this universe And all this good to man! Milton.

Not regenerated; not renewed in heart; remaining or being at enmity with God.