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A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

er made by steeping the refuse pomace in water. Ciderkin is made for common drinking, and supplies the place of small beer. Mortimer.

A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. [Obs.] Bailey.

he United States, the federal circuit courts are commonly presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a special circuit judge, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance. Some of the individual States also…

a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.

To place in a particular situation; to suppy relative incidents. The poet took the matters of fact as they came down to him and circumstanced them, after his own manner. Addison.

he prevalent opinion now is that all such testimony is dependent on circumstances for its support. All testimony is more or less circumstantial. Wharton.

Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.

To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation. The imperfections which you have cited. Shak.

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

ne of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader. Class of a curve (Math.), the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. -- Class meeting (Methodist Churc…

Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.

A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter. Addison.

Supplied with clients. [R.] The least cliented pettifiggers. R. Carew.

found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.

A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.

To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

d fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together. And what hath life for thee That thou shouldst cling to it thus Mrs. Hemans.

Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.