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Deadly; mortal; fatal. "The lethal blow." W. Richardson. -- Le"thal*ly, adv.

To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant. Richardson.

sang (P. gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots.

A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively. [Eng.] Richardson (Dict.).

One who is loved. [Humorous] "The lover and lovee." Richardson.

Somewhat low. [Colloq.] Richardson.

r was, went in unto them. Acts xvii. 2. Air and manner are more expressive than words. Richardson.

To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson.

One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced. Richardson.

moral qualities; in disposition and character; as, one who physically and morally endures hardships.

That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9.

rd oriole (Zool.), a bright-colored American oriole (Icterus spurius), which frequents orchards. It is smaller and darker thah the Baltimore oriole.

The cultivation of orchards.

Full of pangs. Richardson.

the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.

extreme poverty; destitution. "A penury of military forces." Bacon. They were exposed to hardship and penury. Sprat. It arises in neither from penury of thought. Landor.

To personify. [R.] Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.

metimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England. Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings. Shak.

sure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry. Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable. Bacon. O, sir, you are very pleasurable. B. Jonson. -- Pleas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pleas"ur*a*bly, adv.

A folding or fold; a plait. Richardson.