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y has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch.canary.

hly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.

A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice.

iffers from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.

nd having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin.

ed an infallible preservative against drowning . . . According to Chysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for magic uses. Grose. I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Dickens.

ent with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed in the lungs, which are designated cavities or vomicæ. Quain. Body cavity, the coelum. See under Body.

The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia. [Frequently written kelotomy.]

To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.

gate or diversify with different qualities, color, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosterity and adversity. Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood. Addison.

cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice- water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividi…

A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.

A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs. [R.] Burke.

arts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.

A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.

Often met with; usual; frequent; customary. Grief more than common grief. Shak.

Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life.

A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. Conjugate axis of a hyperbola (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci.…