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The whelp of a lioness; a young lion.

Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones. "Liquid melody." Crashaw.

nct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.

An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.

ganic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.

One who curs or engraves precious stones.

Of or pertaining to the art of cutting and engraving precious stones.

The worship of a stone or stones.

A treatise on stones found in the body.

Divination by means of stones.

Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.

Great. Thackeray. -- Little hours (R. C. Ch.), the offices of prime, tierce, sext, and nones. Vespers and compline are sometimes included. -- Little ones, young children. The men, and the women, and the little ones. Deut. ii. 34.

at live to a great age are long in reaching maturity. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will . . . lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live. Ezek. xxxvii. 5, 6.

on some means of support; support of life; maintenance. The opportunities of gaining an honest livelihood. Addison. It is their profession and livelihood to get their living by practices for which they deserve to forfeit their lives. South.

bodies. Sir I. Newton. His faith must be not only living, but lively too. South. Lively stones (Script.), saints, as being quickened by the Spirit, and active in holiness.

to secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.

r (Naut.), a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or Davy's locker. See Davy Jones. -- Shot locker, a compartment where shot are deposited. Totten.

ving a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome. I am very often alone. I don't mean I am lonely. H. James.

or thy salvation. Ps. cxix. 174. Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea. Arbuthnot.

Any abnormal curvature of the bones.