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nsible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently. Walsh. Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. U. S. Grant.

To exceed or surpass in bidding. Prevent the greedy, and outbid the bold. Pope.

A projecting contrivance at the side of a boat to prevent upsetting, as projecting spars with a log at the end.

That stands out; undischarged; uncollected; not paid; as, outstanding obligations. Revenues . . . as well outstanding as collected. A. Hamilton.

Awful, or reverential, in an excessive degree. [R.] Milton.

To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.

Disclosure; discovery; revelation. [Obs.] It was he That made the overture of thy treasons to us. Shak.

A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

ormerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.

One who pants. Congreve.

erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms. [France] Knight.

scles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.

separately; as, the particulars of a story. Particulars which it is not lawful for me to reveal. Bacon. It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community. L'Estrange.

A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.

A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140º F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.

struck by the clapper. Paunch mat (Naut.), a thick mat made of strands of rope, used to prevent the yard or rigging from chafing.

ther part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. [Written also paul, or pall.] Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. --…

That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic. Revenge is . . . the peculiar of Heaven. South.

nerated by the passage of the current in one direction will be absorbed if the current is reversed.