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Having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized.

in the manner of a sketch; incomplete. The execution is sketchy throughout; the head, in particular, is left in the rough. J. S. Harford.

Any particular art. [Obs.] Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful. Hooker.

a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.

de valve. (a) Any valve which opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port. (b) A particular kind of sliding valve, often used in steam engines for admitting steam to the piston and releasing it, alternately, having a cuplike cavity in its face, through which the exhaust steam passes. It is situated in the stea…

A particular quantity of yarn. [Prov. Eng.]

To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.

To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny. Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft. Milton.

To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.

th; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.

A hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the Mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of Spain.

opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. -- n.

and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.

ed; disturbed. -- To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than the regular proportion, as, for example, in making an index.

Particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon. Our Savior is represented everywhere in Scripture as the special patron of the poor and the afficted. Atterbury. To this special evil an improvement of style would apply a special redress. De Quincey.

Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism.

mself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.

A particular or peculiar case; a particularity. Sir M. Hale.

The setting spart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function. Darwin.

To mention specialy; to particularize.