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Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.

To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.

The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.

erior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados.

Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.

esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.

A wrong tradition. "Monsters of mistradition." Tennyson.

To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.

The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.

Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.…

The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.

Contradicting one's self or itself.

Toward the left side; sinistrally.

A feme sole trader.

e leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.

Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3. Knight.

Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. [R.]

A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad.

Tetradactylous.

Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.