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en the operations are mentally performed and only the results written down; -- used principally when the divisor is not greater than ten or twelve.

xt. Done to death by slanderous tongues. Shak. The ground of the difficulty is done away. Paley. Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done away. Thackeray. To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we must do on the armor of God. Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. W. Morris…

. collected them from such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be authentic. Paley.

A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.

n compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments. Burrill.

221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.

ton. By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Col. i. 16.

A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. [Written also doolee and doolie.] [East Indies] Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent. J. D. Hooker.…

(Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.

Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

om by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car.

Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.

A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.

A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.

Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter. How pale she looks, And of an earthy cold! Shak. All over earthy, like a piece of earth. Tennyson.

ern Church. It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque, and a separation, begun in the latter part of the 9th century, became final in 1054. The Eastern Church consists of twelve (thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included) mutually ind…

p. There was no economical distress in England to prompt the enterprises of colonization. Palfrey. Economic questions, such as money, usury, taxes, lands, and the employment of the people. H. C. Baird.

ad a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep. Paley.

hitectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

oth, Of both is flattered; but he neither loves, Nor either cares for him. Shak. Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three. Bacon. There have been three talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists. Holmes.