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vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue. Shak.

An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.

set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself. Cabinet council.

A stone of convex form, highly polished, but not faceted; also, the style of cutting itself. Such stones are said to be cut en cabochon.

her words, from having the differential of an algebraic expression to find the expression itself.

Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.

false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. Shak.

ult of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

The tree itself.

harge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.

A member of a chapter. The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars. Ayliffe.

A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.

Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.

eat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.

m the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. -- Choir screen, Choir wall (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles. -- Choir service, the service of singi…

Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.