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as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale. It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope.…

That number placed below the line in vulgar fractions which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided.

An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidæ.

The devil. [A vulgar euphemism.] I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.

, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received. Locke. In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. Macaulay.

Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Pope.

Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- Dow"di*ly, adv. -- Dow"di*ness, n.

cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written also dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.]

Low; grovelling; vulgar.

troy, as a mental impression; to wear away. Efface from his mind the theories and notions vulgarly received. Bacon.

nning against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview. To shun the encounter of the vulgar crowd. Pope.

The earth. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Erd shrew (Zoöl.), the common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse.

, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin.

itting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit. Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death. Cowper.

That which is obvious, public, or common. Dealing out exoteries only to the vulgar. A. Tucker.

asy; accessible. "In loose, familiar strains." Addison. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Shak.

A perennial plant of the genus Fæniculum (F.vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds. Smell of sweetest fennel. Milton. A sprig of fennel was in fact the theological smelling bottle of the tender sex. S. G. Goodrich. Azorean, or Sweet, fenne…

Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.

nivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidæ, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.

or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude. Common, or Vulgar, fraction, a fraction in which the number of equal parts into which the integer is supposed to be divided is indicated by figures or letters, called the denominator, written below a line, over which is the numerator, indica…