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A bank; a dike. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

A Linnæan order of plants having two styles.

Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.

To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress. [Obs.]

A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

An Italian marble of which the principal varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] Milton.

Blessed. [R.] Longfellow.

Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.

A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves.

Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [Obs.] Condign and worthy praise. Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. Spenser.

orks, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.

According to merit.

Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.

A digger of graves.

Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc.

Same as Indigene. Darwin.

The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper.

Indigence. New indigencies founded upon new desires. South.

One born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant; an autochthon. Evelyn. Tylor.