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Twenty-five pounds sterling. [Slang, Eng.]

hed and a work of art becomes a purely subjective expression in an arbitrary and personal language.

f the Bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment. Langton also made postils upon the whole Bible. Foxe.

One who cleans pots; a scullion. [Slang, U. S.]

A superior kind of souchong tea. De Colange.

, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not presentable in such a gown.

A tailor; -- so called in contempt. [Old slang] L'Estrange.

Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.

rreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue. 1 Tim. i. 9.

The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.

who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language. Hooker.

The quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.

Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. [Slang] Swift. So long as he picked from the filth his prog. R. Browning.

to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.

sting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.

ished principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc. "The rule of propriety," Locke.

The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition. I speak in prose, and let him rymes make. Chaucer. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Milton. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely de…

The Provencal language. See Langue d'oc.

The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province. T. Warton.