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Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system. Boyle.

The navel; the center. [Obs.] "The umbilic of the world." Sir T. Herbert.

ided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated. Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. Coleridge.

Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world. Shak. At which the universal host up dent A shout that tore Hell's concave. Milton.

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.

To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.

(Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water. -- Upper world. (a) The atmosphere. (b) Heaven. (c) This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.

hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. Shak. These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. Acts xvii. 6.

e envy. Spenser. How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Shak.

to the room. The stars that usher evening rose. Milton. The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author. Addison.

rest of all; but philosophy of those . . . at leisure, and vacant from the affairs of the world. Dr. H. More. There was not a minute of the day which he left vacant. Bp. Fell.

xxxix. 6. Let no man deceive you with vain words. Eph. v. 6. Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate ye! Shak. Vain visdom all, and false philosophy. Milton.

kly; infirm. My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge. The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay.

Vastness; immensity. [Obs.] "All the world's vastidity." Shak.

Vastness. [Obs.] The huge vastity of the world. Holland.

(Eccl.), to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun.

n; public exposure. The ventilation of these points diffused them to the knowledge of the world. Bp. Hall.

t false; as, a veracious account or narrative. The young, ardent soul that enters on this world with heroic purpose, with veracious insight, will find it a mad one. Carlyle.

A tribe of Old World lizards which comprises the chameleon. They have long, flexible tongues.

Any one of numerous species of Old World venomous makes belonging to Vipera, Clotho, Daboia, and other genera of the family Viperidæ. There came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. Acts xxviii. 3.