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oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths. [Archaic] So God me help and halidom. Piers Plowman. By my halidom, I was fast asleep. Shak.

Same as Halidom.

Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinæ.

See Halidom.

musement and gayety; a festival day. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. Milton.

To make pallid; to blanch. [Obs.] Feltham.

Want of solidity; weakness; as, the insolidity of an argument. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.

To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.

The act of inavlidating, or the state of being invalidated. So many invalidations of their right. Burke.

See Invalid, n.

The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.

Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.

Invalidity; as, the invalidness of reasoning.

One of the Iulidæ, a family of myriapods, of which the genus Iulus is the type. See Iulus.

See Kentledge.

The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.

A dragon fly.

Same as Linguatulina.

A bird of the Thrush family.