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Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.

A raised work like a bench. [Obs.] Parkhurst.

A method of ingrafting. See Inarch.

Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges).

A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.

The state of being itchy.

Knowledge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket. [Usually in pl.]

Of or pertaining to machines.

cheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot. "How long will you machinate!" Sandys.

The act of machinating. Shak.

One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer. Glanvill. Sir W. Scott.

titute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

One who or operates a machine; a machinist. [R.]

Machines, in general, or collectively.

Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.[Obs.] Dryden.

A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.

listering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple. Bastard manchineel, a tree (Cameraria latifolia) of the East Indies, having similar poisonous properties. Lindley.

A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.

,fr. March, v. Marching money (Mil.), the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. -- In marching order (Mil.), equipped for a march. -- Marching regiment. (Mil.) (a) A regiment in active service. (b) In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regi…