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ook entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland.

le to avouch anything for certainty, such a brewing and sophistication of them they make. Holland.

in.), the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite. -- Brown holland. See under Holland. -- Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. -- Brown stone.…

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull. [Obs.] Holland.

imitation of butter. The manufacturers ship large quantities of oleomargarine to England, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc.

A captive; a prisoner. [Obs.] Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave. Holland.

A horse; a nag. [Obs.] Chaucer. Holland.

be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity. Holland.

The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.

Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds. [R.] Holland.

e emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them. Holland.

gutter or channel. -- Channel bill (Zoöl.), a very large Australian cucko (Scythrops Novæhollandiæ. -- Channel goose. (Zoöl.) See Gannet.

charge. Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. Holland. The charge of the light brigade. Tennyson.

nd or heart. Be of good cheer. Matt. ix. 2. The parents . . . fled away with heavy cheer. Holland.

e to an issue; to turn out; to succed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise. [Prov. or Obs.] Holland.

The chick-pea. Holland.

of turning, rolling, or whirling round. A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration. Holland.

To clothe. [Obs.] Holland.

To declare war with certain ceremonies. [Obs.] Holland.