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Ruling; governing. [Obs.]

To impregnate again or anew. Sir T. Browne.

To oppose; to fight against. [Obs.]

signing or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.

To stagnate; to cease to flow. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Stagnation. [Obs.]

Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers. (Pici).

A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.

A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.

Any bird with a schizognathous palate.

The schizognathous birds.

the condition of having a schizognathous palate.

Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.

Indignation at one's own character or actions. Baxter.

Having definite color markings.

Sign given; marking. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Signing; joining or sharing in a signature; as, signatory powers.

, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well furnished with various traces, signatures, and images. I. Watts. The natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls . . . are supposed to be stamped with. Bentley.

One who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.