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shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macualay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. Jeffrey.

One of those who conspired for constitutional government against the Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the throne at the death of Alexander I., in December, 1825; -- called also Dekabrist.

n. I once again Defy thee to the trial of mortal fight. Milton. I defy the enemies of our constitution to show the contrary. Burke.

ion; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution. [U.S.] Court of delegates, formerly, the great court of appeal from the archbishops' courts and also from the court of admiralty. It is now abolished, and the privy council is the immediate court of appeal in such ca…

Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.

Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate child; delicate health. A delicate and tender prince. Shak.

rcised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic.

One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.

ccessor. The devolution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable to old constitutional requisitions. De Quincey.

r from those necessary limitations which, according to this philosopher, originate in the constitution of the human intellect.

Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.

Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.

Disorder; bad constitution. [R.] Wiseman.

Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

ercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. The Constitution of the United States.

An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.

d; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution. Elastic bitumen. (Min.) See Elaterite. -- Elastic curve. (a) (Geom.) The curve made by a thin elastic rod fixed horizontally at one end and loaded at the other. (b) (Mech.) The figure assumed by the longitudinal axi…

e simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion. An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil establishment. Bancroft.

benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty. That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Num. xxxvi. 8. To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Heb. xi. 25.