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To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.

r defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.

. See under Lich.

A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; -- called also red-mouth grunt.

painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.

Having many pairs of leaflets.

waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail. The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean. Arbuthnot.

To chide; to reprove.

o bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive. "Obligated by a sense of duty." Proudfit. That's your true plan -- to obligate The present ministers of state. Churchill.

To annul indirectly by enacting a new and contrary law, instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one. [Obs.] Bailey.

In another manner. [Obs.] He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.

An outlet. [Obs.] Spenser.

To investigate thoroughly. [Obs.]

Having plagæ, or irregular enlongated color spots.

The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland. Not having one plowgate of land. Sir W. Scott.

To squander. Thackeray.

Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras.

In a profligate manner.

The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

The deputy or substitute for a legate.