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A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.

In the open-air. Smollett.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, fat; fatty; -- applied to compounds having an openc-hain structure. The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working)

a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. Ure.

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love. Combe.

A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.

where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise. Bold in close ambush, base in open field. Dryden.

can not be amended. Shak. An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on it…

Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.

An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.

ted States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

e all entered in a book called Domesday Book. -- Ancient lights (Law), windows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.

rodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

Gently opening the bowels; laxative. -- n.

Serving to open; aperient. Harvey.

Open; ev [Archaic] Fotherby.

The act of opening; an opening; an aperture. [Archaic] Wiseman.