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ish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. Those very opinions themselves had broached. Swift.

n shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil dlands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.

he valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.

A restaurant or café at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter, taking the food to small tables to eat. [U. S.]

atics in which the laws of dependence which bind the variable quantities together are themselves subject to change. -- Differential calculus, a method of investigating mathematical questions by using the ratio of certain indefinitely small quantities called differentials. The problems are primarily of this form: to fi…

institutions which they believed contrary to the kingdom of Christ, but who now avail themselves of political rights.

A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.

Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.

istricts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world. Locke.

To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. Who could easily have carved themselves their own food. South.

ate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.

Adherence to the doctrines of the church of Rome, or the doctrines themselves.

in to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes must center in ourselves alone. Dryden.

. . . But where there is true friendship there needs none. Shak. Al ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. Chesterfield.

That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

rcular numbers (Arith.), those whose powers terminate in the same digits as the roots themselves; as 5 and 6, whose squares are 25 and 36. Bailey. Barlow. -- Circular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the plane is, in the theory of curves, imagined to p…

cous matter. A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again. L'Estrange.

among them are throught worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery. Sharp.

he shall make thee afraid. Ecclesiasticus xxx. 9. Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up. J. Ingelow.

character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.