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ound to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business. There take an inventory of all I have. Shak.

Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable. [Obs.] Such a person appeareth in a far more honorable and invidious state than any prosperous man. Barrow.

A silver coin of Japan, worth about thirty-four cents. [Written also itzebu, ichebu, itcheboo, etc.]

A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. Chaucer. Tired as a jade in overloaden cart. Sir P. Sidney.

rendered, esp. the maintenance of troops. [Written also jaghire, jagir, etc.] [India] Whitworth.

A morass; a shallow lake. [Written also jhil.] [India] Whitworth.

n. He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel only for him, who was only worthy to enter into it. Sir P. Sidney.

y place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." Wordsworth.

e main body; as, the jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and curved shore." Wordsworth. It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. Sir T. Browne.

The glasswort (Salsola Kali).

Formed like kali, or glasswort.

The name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar. Whitworth.

A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc. [Written also keelvat.] Johnson.

A sort of pottage; kale. See Kale, 2. Ainsworth.

The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata). Dr. Prior.

A cress. [Obs.] Chaucer. Not worth a kers. See under Cress.

r. Every kind of beasts, and of birds. James iii.7. She follows the law of her kind. Wordsworth. Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. Emerson.

nt. In soft silence shed the kindly shower. Pope. Should e'er a kindlier time ensue. Wordsworth.

kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth.

kindred skies; kindred propositions. True to the kindred points of heaven and home. Wordsworth.