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lier de Servier (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc.

he English royal household, who attended to the furnishing of the king's lodgings and had certain privileges.

An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

istus or rock rose. -- Gum passages, sap receptacles extending through the parenchyma of certain plants (Amygdalaceæ, Cactaceæ, etc.), and affording passage for gum. -- Gum pot, a varnish maker's utensil for melting gum and mixing other ingredients. -- Gum resin, the milky juice of a plant solidified by exposure to…

Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopædic; -- said of certain birds.

Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds.

An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.

One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora.

spirally, so that they incline all to the right (or left) of a vertical line; -- said of certain hemihedral forms.

th the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, th, as in shall, thing, thine (for zh see §274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and…

uct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior. A man of very shy, retired habits. W. Irving.

Formed or acquired by habit or use. An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims. South.

Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc.

Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides. -- n.

Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Top hamper (Naut.), unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft.

A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.

An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was fi…

An association; a league or confederacy. Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At on…

Certainly; surely; indeed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like. Harmonic interval (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes. -- Harmonical mean (Arith. & Alg.), certain relations of num…