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Missouri; -- a nickname.

See Instate.

Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation. "When I came to man's estate." Shak. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Romans xii. 16.

Washington; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees.

Having bent or curved ribs.

Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.

California; -- a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.

Minnesota; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of gophers.

New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.

like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.

Iowa; -- a nickname of obscure origin.

Indiana; -- a nickname of obscure origin.

Incrusted. Bacon.

place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor. Shak.

Pertaining to the mutual relations of States; existing between, or including, different States; as, interstate commerce. Story.

Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak.

(Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.

ania; -- a nickname alluding to its having been the central one of the 13 original United States.

Broad-ribbed.

Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic.