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The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

Sprawling.

A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.

In a state of gasping. Coleridge.

of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thysel…

One who blasphemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God Pope.

Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton.…

In a blasphemous manner.

uratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification. Punished for his blasphemy against learning. Bacon.

A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.

To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).

One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham.

Furnished with tendrils.

The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea.

Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.

To those Jews who, after the Exile, were scattered through the Old World, and afterwards to Jewish Christians living among heathen. Cf. James i.1.

A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

To clasp. See Inclasp.

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.

To grasp; to grip. [R.] Spenser.