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A body of children. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable. [Obs.] "Nefand adominations." Sheldon. "Nefandous high treason." Cotton Mather.

Eager for novelties; desirous of changing. [Obs.] So newfangel be they of their meat. Chaucer.

Newmade; formed with the affectation of novelty. "A newfangled nomenclature." Sir W. Hamilton.

Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.

Newfangledness. [Obs.] Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson (More's Utopia).

One who is eager for novelties or desirous of change. [Obs.] Tooker.

In a newfangled manner; with eagerness for novelty. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

An elephant. [Obs.]

A thief from without or abroad, taken within a lord's fee or liberty.

To profane. [Obs.]

e; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God.

atters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place. "Profane authors." I. Disraeli. The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine. Gibbon.

In a profane manner. The character of God profanely impeached. Dr. T. Dwight.

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

One 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.

Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.

A sulphur mine.

of gause, or very silk. The smoke of sulphur . . . is commonly used by women to whiten tiffanies. Sir T. Browne.