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The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.

Of or pertaining to a shield. A good example of these scutal monstrosities. Cussans.

A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. A tailor called me in his shop. Shak.

osed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another. God on our side, doubt not of victory. Shak. We have not always been of the . . . same side in politics. Lando…

public and their emoluments as so much plunder to be distributed among their active partisans by those who are chosen to responsible offices of administration.

cending to the ankles, worn by Roman women. The stola was not allowed to be worn by courtesans, or by women who had been divorced from their husbands. Fairholt.

ar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters. A. J. Ellis.

he's warm man and does not care to be madAddison. I had been none of the warmest of partisans. Hawthor

the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household.