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eater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.

Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly.

Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. Shak.

A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel. -- Chub sucker (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish of the United States (Erimyzon sucetta); -- called also creekfish.

To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear. Prior.

To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing. Addison.

An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.

Illustration by comprison; simile. [Obs.] Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big compare. Shak. Beyond compare. See Beyond comparison, under Comparison.

ates. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug.

uously; as, the current flows continually. Why do not all animals continually increase in bigness Bentley.

ngs quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips.

The bights formed by the several turns of a cable. Totten.

Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage. "A more decided taste for science." Prescott.

Ambiguous; mysterious. "If he is silent or delphic." New York Times.

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.

holly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot. While Father Le Blanc was very devout he was not a devotee. A. S. Hardy.

s it unwinds from the other, and a pulley sustaining the weight to be lifted hangs in the bight of the rope. It is an ancient example of a differential motion.

Ambiguous; of double meaning. [Obs.] T. Adams.