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cer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. Motley.

A pigeon of the genus Columba and various related genera. The species are numerous.

From a remoter or higher antiquity. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. D. Webster.

A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious. The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile. Fairholt.

Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general. People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. Macaulay.

The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like. A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement. Sir W. Temple.

One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.

tying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. Wiseman.

A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.

or discourse; aim. He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general. Addison. Now thou knowest my drift. Sir W. Scott.

ing; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking. I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo. Shak.

The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.

n, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circles, or in detached pillars.

A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.

Effects, in general.[Slang]

native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India. [India] [Written also darbar.]

To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. Weary sennights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine. Shak. Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs. Swift.

econd) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second.

A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.