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The act of making unlucky; misfortune; bad luck. [Obs.] Bacon.

attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news. Cowper.

In an interesting manner.

The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.

By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.

Sportive; not serious; fit for jests. He will find that these are no jesting matters. Macaulay .

In a jesting manner.

Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.

In a lasting manner.

The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange.

Swarming and devastating like locusts. [R.] Tennyson.

ples which determine the position of masts, and the mechanical methods of placing them. Masting house (Naut.), a large building, with suitable mechanism overhanging the water, used for stepping and unstepping the masts of vessels.

To make wrong distinctions in or concerning. Hooker.

With distrust or suspicion.

A process, invented by P. Ostberg, for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminium is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal…

Not making resistance.

That which is cast out. [Obs.]

Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.

The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger. Posting house, a post house.

The office of a priest. [Obs.] Milton.