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At or during pleasure. For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure. F. Harrison.

A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.

The state of being twice folded; reduplication. [R.] Bailey.

A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.

Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. [R.] [A] jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.

Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.

Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory.

To kick.

Act of kicking.

A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat nesessary to life, that is, the animal heat.

The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

A small cañon.

To render capable; to enable; to qualify. By thih instruction we may be capaciated to observe those errors. Dryden.

ace; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak. The capacity of the exhausted cylinder. Boyle.

Greediness of appetite for flesh. [Sportive.] Pope.

The state or quality of being catholic; universality.

Blindness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.