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A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.

, to array the power of the church against some moral evil. Remember that both church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. Bulwer.

The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.

State of being a church. South.

A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.

The state or conduct of a cicisbeo.

A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning. That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing. Glanvill.

hich sits successively in different places in its circuit (see Circuit, 6). In the United States, the federal circuit courts are commonly presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a special circuit judge, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law…

The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round. Swift.

The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.

The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round. J. Gregory.

The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Johnson. I would not my unhoused, free condition Put into circumscription and confine. Shak.

ch attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. W. Irving.

The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.

e permint to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. State Trials (1661).

The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.

The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.

The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.