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A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.

Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.

A young cow.

Having the form of a helix; spiral.

Bearing herbs or vegetation.

The act of hereticating or pronouncing heretical. London Times.

See Highfaluting.

Shaped like a horseshoe.

A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin. Milton.

To record in or as history. [R.] Lamb. Thy conquest meet to be historified. Sir P. Sidney.

In human form. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Conferring honor; tending to honor. London. Spectator.

To horn; to cuckold. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Causing horror; frightful. Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. I. Taylor.

That which causes horror. [R.] Miss Edgeworth.

To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders. E. Irving.

The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good housewife she. Dryden.

To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.

Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott.

The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.