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ose; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate admission. South.

To poison; to drug. South.

An encroachment or infringement. The slight intrenchment upon individual freedom. Southey.

Internally; A lie is a thing absolutely and intrinsically evil. South.

The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion. South.

inveigling, or the state of being inveigled; that which inveigles; enticement; seduction. South.

A proposition or device for securing peace, especially in the church. South.

chief, extended from the shores of the St. Lawrence and of Lakes Huron, Ontario, and Erie south, through eastern Pennsylvania, to Maryland; that of the southern tribes, of whom the Cherokees were chief, formed part of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. All of the tribes were agricultural, and th…

The quality or state of being irrational. "Brutish irrationaliity." South.

Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South.

y, considered absolutely and irrespectively, is better and more desirable than adversity. South.

To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep. Southey.

A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers.

The native name of a South American rutaceous shrub (Pilocarpus pennatifolius). The leaves are used in medicine as an diaphoretic and sialogogue.

In Mexico and the southwestern United States, a kind of plastered house or hut, usually made by planting poles or timber in the ground, filling in between them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.

To become weary; to lose spirit. They . . . fail, and jade, and tire in the prosecution. South.

A South American wild cat (Felis jaguarondi), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds.

A South American striped frog (Pseudis paradoxa), remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult, and hence called also paradoxical frog.

like plant (Lespedeza striata) from Eastern Asia, useful for fodder, first noticed in the Southern United States about 1860, but now become very common. During the Civil War it was called variously Yankee clover and Rebel clover. -- Japan earth. See Catechu. -- Japan ink, a kind of writing ink, of a deep, glossy blac…

Jasminum, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The J. officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is J. Sambac, and, with J. angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other plants are calle…