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Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude. W. Montagu.

Not perturbed.

Impropriety. [Obs.]

Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice. Akenside.

Want of expertness or skill.

Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert. Shak. -- n.

Concealed; private. [R.]

Excessively malapert or impudent. [Obs.] Prynne.

Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.

inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar. Property is correctly a synonym for peculiar quality; but it is frequently used as coextensive with quality in general. Sir W. Hamilton.

Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.

Found; gained by finding. [Obs.]

A list of drams, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform.

Same as Répertoire.

to fragments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken; -- so called from Prince Rupert, nephew of Charles I., by whom they were first brought to England. Called also Rupert's ball, and glass tear.

A tax in addition to the usual or normal tax; specif., in the United Kingdom, an income tax of sixpence for every pound in addition to the normal income tax of one shilling and twopence for every pound, imposed, by the Finance Act of 1909-1910 (c. 8, ss 66, 72), on the amount by which the income of any person exceeds…

That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal. [R.]

Being above ground. "Superterranean quarries." Mrs. Trollope.

Being above ground, or above the earth. [R.]

Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth. Buckminster.