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A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade. The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man. Dryden.

ews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb.

r party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines. Madder . . . in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity. Mortimer.

The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.

achusetts and Maine, April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington in 1775. It was first observed in 1894. [U. S.]

The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.

emporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. I stand in pause where I shall first begin. Shak.

An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.

Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.

To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance. When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear. Dryden.

The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.

th Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt.

remities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.

The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed; as: (a) (Physics)

real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. [Archaic] His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler. Bacon. No man can long put on a person and act a part. Jer. Taylor. To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright. Milton.…

A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.

A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.

Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.

n to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in