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The haddock. [Scot.]

One who is armed with a halberd. Strype.

Of this day; belonging to the present day. [R.] Boyle. Quart. Rev.

A hospital.

A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies. Our king has all the Indies in his arms. Shak.

The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures. It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. Paley.

Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly inexpedient to use those ceremonies. Bp. Burnet.

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The quality or state of being an ingredient or component part. Boyle.

ture; an element; a constituent. By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients. Sir I. Newton. Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids. Arbuthnot.

Disobedience. [Obs.] Wyclif. Chaucer.

Not obedient; disobedient. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- In`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv. [Obs.]

A huckster; a cadger. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A lad; a male sweetheart. [Scot.]

Ladylike; not rough; gentle. [Obs.] "Stroked with a ladied land." Feltham.

The small-flowered Fuchsia (F. coccinea), and other closely related species.

A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.

rum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies. Dr. Prior.

The middle part; half; moiety. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Same as Medi, Medi, etc.