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ertaining to, or derived from, arsenic, when having an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, arsenious acid.

Ascent; height; elevation. [R.] Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant. Temple.

ion. He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. John ix. 21. He asked the way to Chester. Shak.

ssentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

ecurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

ody; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object. The highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life. Addison.

A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

tion; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

ng to the town of Augsburg. Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that o…

ne of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison.

side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. W. Black.

ice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.] Oxf. Gloss.

Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

ms' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. Bay cat (Zoöl.), a wild cat of Africa and the East Indies (Felis aurata). -- Bay lynx (Zoöl.), the common American lynx (Felis, or Lynx, rufa).

ach flea (Zoöl.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and seas, which, by its interlaced running rootstocks, binds the sand…

Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.

Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man. Shak. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Milton.

rder to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman. He, in the first flower of my freshest age, Betrothed me unto the only heir. Spenser. Ay, and we are betrothed. Shak.