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Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the lower; -- said of dogs.

pittance of learning they received." Swift. The inconsiderable pittance of faithful professors. Fuller.

al participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world. Sharp.

ates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger. Evil thoughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all the storms and tempests of the soul. Buckminster.

he free right of publishing books, pamphlets, or papers, without previous restraint or censorship, subject only to punishment for libelous, seditious, or morally pernicious matters. -- Press bed, a bed that may be folded, and inclosed, in a press or closet. Boswell. -- Press of sail, (Naut.), as much sail as the stat…

exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc. Parr. Probe, or Probe-pointed, scissors (Surg.), scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end. Wiseman.

Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. "Professors of religion." Bacon.

The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.

place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute. He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke xxii. 37. For him I reckon not in high estate. Milton.

Of or pertaining to a king; royal. Regius professor, an incumbent of a professorship founded by royal bounty, as in an English university.

A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance. Their visors closed, their lances in the rest. Dryden.

ors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors. Swift.

urtherance of anything by authority to it; confirmation; approbation. The strictest professors of reason have added the sanction of their testimony. I. Watts.

Shaped like a chisel; as, the scalpriform incisors of rodents.

To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors. Massinger.

aration of medicines. Boyle. Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of thier successors. Sir H. Wotton. To fight shy. See under Fight, v. i.

gular sign. Whately. -- Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. -- Singular term (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual.

To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of t…

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pay. Evelyn. It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to stipendiate professors. I. Taylor.