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one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world. One of t…

Of high station; of high social position. [Obs.] Worthy women of the town. Chaucer. Worthiest of blood (Eng. Law of Descent), most worthy of those of the same blood to succeed or inherit; -- applied to males, and expressive of the preference given them over females. Burrill.

The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.

To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.

The position or rank of a yeoman. [Obs.] "His estate of yeomanry." Chaucer.

The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; anode. [R.] Miller.

incous plate in connection with a copper plate in a voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic battery; electro-positive.

A double fluoride of zirconium and hydrogen, or some other positive element or radical; as, zircofluoride of sodium.

thematical relation which belongs to all the planes of a zone, and expresses their common position with reference to the axes. -- Zonal structure (Crystallog.), a structure characterized by the arrangements of color, inclusions, etc., of a crystal in parallel or concentric layers, which usually follow the outline of t…