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r, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; -- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light.

One who legally transfers property from himself to another.

Disruption. [R.] Jefferson.

One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.

to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.] He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. De Quincey.

The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift. Bouvier. Donation party, a party assembled at the house of some one, as of a clergyman, each one bringing some present. [U.S.] Bartlett.…

One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.

A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

aled us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 2 Cor. i. 22. And from his coffers Received the golden earnest of our death. Shak.

occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.

One who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.

the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine. push the envelope Increase the capability of some type of machine or system; -- usu. by technological development.

A vanishing; disappearance. [R.] T. Jefferson.

To exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land.

inent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence. Milton.

One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift.

e. exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature. Jefferson. O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end. Tennyson.

lf to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator. A mist . . . watered the whole face of the ground. Gen. ii. 6. Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face. Byron.

Easiness of access; complaisance; affability. Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility. South.

he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker. Story. Wharton. My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled That owes me for a hundred tun of wine. Marlowe.