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Same as Liege, n., 2. Chaucer. Spenser.

See Ledgment

See Lodgment.

ying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. "The management of the voice." E. Porter.

Wrong arrangement.

Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.

igation. [R.] I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.

One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William I…

Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.

That which is presaged, or foretold. [R.] "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.

Fourfold; having four similar parts, or two pairs of similar parts. Quadrigeminal bodies (Anat.), two pairs of lobes, or elevations, on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the optic lobes. The anterior pair are called the nates, and the posterior the testes.

Arrangement. [Obs.] Waterland.

The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.

A renewed or repeated engagement.

Revenge. [Obs.] He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.

Same as Spermosphere.

neral, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. Pope.

Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. [R.] Swift.

The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. [Obs.] Daniel.

Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.