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An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. Lyell.

Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed. If Demetrius . . . have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies. Acts xi…

one by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.

ocess, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.

A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.

s; a place in a tidal river or other water on or near the seashore, where oysters are deposited to grow and fatten for market. See lst Scalp, n. -- Oyster catcher (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wading birds of the genus Hæmatopus, which frequent seashores and feed upon shellfish. The European species (H. ostra…

ring religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer. Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. P. Plowman. The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or…

Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1. As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not take pawns without use [i.e., interest]. Bacon.

who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

n or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. Hall.

entary degeneration (Med.), a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.

ant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. "A plague upon the people fell." Tennyson. Cattle plague. See Rinderpest. -- Plague mark, Plague spot, a spot or mark…

the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position. We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it. Locke.

To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx. [Eng.] Mushet.

A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law.

A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.

players sit has certain compartments colored red and black, upon which the stakes are deposited. Hoyle.