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ll this desponsation of her . . . she had not set one step toward the consummation of her marriage. Jer. Taylor.

A written pledge of marriage. Clarendon.

Destiny. [Obs.] Marston.

posed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. Shak.

A mark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise. Abp. Thomson.

Resolutely; unchangeably. Being determinately . . . bent to marry. Sir P. Sidney.

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate. [God] hath determined the times before appointed. Acts xvii. 26.

One who marries the second time.

A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

the sheriff's officer." Macaulay. -- Tasmanian devil (Zoöl.), a very savage carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania (Dasyurus, or Diabolus, ursinus). -- To play devil with, to molest extremely; to ruin. [Low]

R.] To take her from austerer check of parents, To make her his by most devoutful rights. Marston.

That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, â, ä, o, ô, etc. "Diacritical points." Sir W. Jones. A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way…

A mark consisting of two dots [..], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, coöperate, aërial.

The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.

ersections furnish smaller subdivisions of the unit of measure than could be conveniently marked on a plain scale. -- Diagonal stratification. (Geol.) Same as Cross bedding, under Cross, a.

The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).

daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey (Zoöl.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

A plate with an opening, which is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.

The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia.