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To thrust impertinently; to present without warrant or solicitation; as, to obtrude one's self upon a company. The objects of our senses obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds, whether we will or no. Lock.

To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy. Johnson.

To make a petition or solicitation.

A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. After- image.

eated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink. And plies him with redoubled strokes Dryden. He plies the duke at morning and at night. Shak.

A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief. By pressing the wood cut into semifluid metal, an intaglio matrix is produced: and from this matrix, in a similar way, a polytype in relief is obtained. Hansard.

The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.

An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1.

A trustworthy citizen; a skilled workman. See Citation under 3d Commune, 1.

To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease. To push down, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.

Request; desire; solicitation. Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion. Herbert.

who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.

Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.

A species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma.

One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.

Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness. Reflex action (Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and…

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty. I will marry her, sir, at your request. Shak.

Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants. Boyle.

A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.

men, radical reformers; -- a designation applied to the English Independents (1641). See Citation under Radical, n., 2. -- Root barnacle (Zoöl.), one of the Rhizocephala. -- Root hair (Bot.), one of the slender, hairlike fibers found on the surface of fresh roots. They are prolongations of the superficial cells of t…