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Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, Is all that makes her thus angelical. Marston.

An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

arbon and hydrogen, some of with make up illuminating gas. -- Light carbureted hydrogen, marsh gas, CH4; fire damp.

A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, glat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin.

A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent course of the nervous infuence. Marshall Hall.

or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. Marshall Hall.

alline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.

To open; to yawn. [Obs.] O, chaun thy breast. Marston.

Sidney. Court of chivalry, a court formerly held before the lord high constable and earl marshal of England as judges, having cognizance of contracts and other matters relating to deeds of arms and war. Blackstone.

To chuckle; to laugh. [R.] Marston.

An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc. Gwilt. Marsh cinquefoil, the Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.

ad; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. Marsion

he same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald. "I have marshaled my clan." Campbell.

proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.

To set or place; to set; to station. To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. E. Hall.

proposal . . . might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States. Marshall.

Conformity. [R.] Marston.

d especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.

to steal. [Cant] But as I am Crack, I will convey, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius. Marston.