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n who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife. The husband and wife are one person in law. Blackstone.

A large European sturgeon (Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen.

of a bent glass tube terminating in two bulbs, the one covered with muslin, the other of black glass, and containing ether and a thermometer. Ether being poured on the muslin, the black ball, cooled by the evaporation of the ether within, is soon covered with dew; at this moment, the inclosed thermometer gives the dew…

The leaves of the black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), used in neuralgic and pectorial troubles.

An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation. Certain sensational or ideational stimuli. Blackw. Mag.

Common; simple. [Obs.] Blackwall.

The state of being illegitimate. Blackstone.

crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals. [R.] A thin crust or illinition of black manganese. Kirwan.

A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

on; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness. Lost in the wilds of vast immensity. Blackmore. The immensity of the material system. I. Taylor.

removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n. Blackstone. Immovable apparatus (Med.), an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable feasts (Eccl.), feasts which occur on a certain day of the year and do not depend…

parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. Blackstone.

To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment. Blackstone.

To hold a conference or consultation. Blackstone.

The quality of being impartible; communicability. Blackstone.

Not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible; as, an impartible estate. Blackatone.

s an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. Blackstone.

n prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the public streets. Blackstone. False imprisonment. (Law) See under False.