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on or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural. "Sensibilities so fine!" Cowper. The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. Burke. His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pri…

To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility. C. Kingsley.

To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine. [R.] The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive. Walpole.

To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13.…

ts of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.

A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe.

A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.

on to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side. Looking round on every side beheld A pathless desert. Milton.

Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount, payable to the bearer on demand. In the United States and its possessions, it is issued against the deposit of silver coin, and is not legal tender, but is receivable for customs, taxes, and all public dues.…

ty, the sine of the arc that measures the angle; in a right-angled triangle, the side opposite the given angle divided by the hypotenuse. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. -- Versed sine, that part of the diameter between the sine and the arc.

The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.

Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; - - the opposite of dextrorse. See Dextrorse.

A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood.

Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.

hich an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n.

ation between the exhaust passage f and the port c, for the release of steam from the opposite end of the cylinder.

Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.

One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. The epicure and the smell-feast. South.