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re intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. U. S. Grant.

To grant an outpension to.

In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.

Preponderant weight; a counterbalance. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats.

The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients. [Written also putchuck.]

A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne. Sir W. Scott.

To reason falsely; to draw conclusions not warranted by the premises. [R.]

An official warrant of remission of penalty. Sign me a present pardon for my brother. Shak.

pardon for interrupting a man, or for jostling him in a crowd. The civil magistrate also grants a pardon, and not forgiveness. The two words are, therefore, very clearly distinguished from each other in most cases which relate to the common concerns of life.

and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant. Mozley & W.

-- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ness, n. A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious. Bacon. Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long, parsimonious war will drain us of more men and money. Addison.

(Mitchella repens) of the order Rubiaceæ, having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself. (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); al…

sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated. [Obs.] "Dumbly she passions, frantically she doteth." Shak.

pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.

s work. -- Patent office, a government bureau for the examination of inventions and the granting of patents. -- Patent right. (a) The exclusive right to an invention, and the control of its manufacture. (b) (Law) The right, granted by the sovereign, of exclusive control of some business of manufacture, or of the sale…

One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent. Bacon.

lly, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.

A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants. [Written also pelicoid.] Math. Dict.

The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power of quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia.