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A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.

Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility. The levity that is fatigued and disgusted with everything of which it is in possession. Burke.

The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace.

Suitableness; agreeableness. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. Boyle.

To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. " Loafing vagabonds." W. Black.

In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.

The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind. Walk . . . with all lowliness and meekness. Eph. iv. 1, 2.

nating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.

Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish. Both strived for death; magnanimous debate. Stirling. There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. Washington.

The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.

Unfavorableness; evil nature. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. Shak.

The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness. Locke.

The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.

Tameness; gentleness; mildness. [Archaic]

To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fitness; suitableness; propriety.

Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness. [Obs.] He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design. Bp. Burnet.

A crystalline substance obtained from mesitylene.