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Indicating division or distribution. Mede.

To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.

astropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.

Distribution; dealing; apportionment. At her general dole, Each receives his ancient soul. Cleveland.

eautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons.

The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe. Burke.

, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.

outhern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.

to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe. A flattering painter who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. Goldsmith. Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power Prior.

discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature. The avaridrawback from the wisdom ascribed to him. Hallam.

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

ery beast of the earth. Gen. ix. 2. His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. Shak.

Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth.

In a dreadful manner; terribly. Dryden.

A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.

To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. B. Jonson.

Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; - - never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man). Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay.

Owing; ascribable, as to a cause. This effect is due to the attraction of the sun. J. D. Forbes.