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is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. "But sermons are mere drugs." Fielding. And virtue shall a drug become. Dryden.

mhead court-martial (Mil.), a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table.

ch belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.

denly withdraw. Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub. Fielding.

Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips.

An elderly lady holding a station between a governess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family. Brande & C.

An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.

revailing winds. [Written also dun.] Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.

ge power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. Beaconsfield.

) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.

without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you. "Each of the combatants." Fielding.

or dignity of an earl. He [Pulteney] shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom. Chesterfield.

Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness. Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness. South.

Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready. He gained their easy hearts. Dryden. He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch. Sir W. Scott.

n.) See Anomaly. -- Eccentric chuck (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so as to produce combinations of eccentric combinations of eccentric circles. -- Eccentric gear. (Mach.) (a) The whole apparatus, strap, and other parts, by which the motion of…

Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish. [Eng.]

ation; as, to edit a newspaper. Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. Enfield.

To force; to constrain; to compel to yield. [Obs.] Spenser.

The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.

Eldest; firstborn. Blackstone.