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ught to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace. Buckle.

swallowing food; the power of swallowing. The muscles employed in the act of deglutition. Paley.

eral officer. Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. Palfrey.

A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.

n), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure, warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser, the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not punctually discharged by the buyer when it becomes due.

Formation of teeth; toothed form. [R.] How did it [a bill] get its barb, its dentation Paley.

Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics.

of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.

That which is lost or destroyed. [R.] Paley.

That may or should be deprecated. Paley.

of design, those into which the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture. -- School of design, one in which are taught the invention and delineation of artistic or decorative figures, patterns, and the like.

Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathæ), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.

To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer. Pope.

The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).

scribing; also that which is dictated. It affords security against the dictation of laws. Paley.

es, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.

To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of…

The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.

s according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.

Pertaining to diplomatics; paleographic. Astle.