Search the Dictionary

A thing to be noted or observed; a notable fact; -- chiefly used in the plural.

uction from or by; in spite of. We gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done. Dr. H. More.…

A thing to be observed. Swift.

One of the Octandria.

A Linnæan class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil.

Of or pertaining to the Octandria; having eight distinct stamens.

Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses. -- adv.

e red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.

One of several alkaloids found in the leaves of the oleander.

Having few stamens.

The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.

Employing one hand; as, the one-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.

Generous; liberal; munificent. -- O"pen-hand`ed*ness, n. J. S. Mill.

The symbol, quantity, or thing upon which a mathematical operation is performed; -- called also faciend.

One about to be ordained.

A kind of transparent light muslin.

The wanderoo.

Foreign; outlandish. [Obs.] Strutt.

A foreigner. Wood.

Foreign; not native. Him did outlandish women cause to sin. Neh. xiii. 26. Its barley water and its outlandish wines. G. W. Cable.