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Highlanders, collectively.

A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal. [Obs.] Callander.

icine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles.…

Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.

oundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind. Wh…

harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character. For he that doeth injury shall receve that he did evil. Wyclif(Col. iii. 25). Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments. I. Watts. Riot ascends above their loftiest…

That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by insinuations. I scorn your coarse insinuation. Cowper.

An islander. [R.] Berkeley.

A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace.

Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.

Same as Laplander. Cf. Lapps.

live the Gospel. Foxe. To live down, to live so as to subdue or refute; as, to live down slander.

ar, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.

Speaking reproachfully; slanderous. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. South.

Same as Malanders.

A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.

To speak evil of; to slander. [Obs.]

An agricultural implement used in Flanders, consisting of a kind of large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man. [Written also mollebært and mouldebært.] Simmonds.

= Norlander. [Scot. & Eng.]