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th close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. Dryden.

of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.

in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. Dryden. Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.

grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.

lar, adjacent to the joints. -- Margin of a course (Arch.), that part of a course, as of slates or shingles, which is not covered by the course immediately above it. See 2d Gauge.

awk or harrier (Circus cyaneus), native of both America and Europe. The adults are bluish slate above, with a white rump. Called also hen harrier, and mouse hawk. (b) The marsh harrier. -- Marsh hen (Zoöl.), a rail; esp., Rallus elegans of fresh-water marshes, and R. longirostris of salt-water marshes. -- Marsh mallo…

Translated literally.

To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. [R.] Peacham.

To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.

A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.

A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.

and Brahma. -- Om mani padme hun, a sacred formula of buddhism (esp. of the Lamaists) translated "O, the Jewel in the Lotus, Amen," and referring to Amitabha, who is commonly represented as standing or sitting within a lotus.

Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.

The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.

To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language. We are put to construe and paraphrase our own words. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To write a parody upon; to burlesque. I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace. Pope.

hynchus psittaculus) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also perroquet auk.

A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite.

The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [Written also peschito.]

Clay slate; argillaceous schist.