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ilk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the A. gummifer and A. verus.

sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance. Top this treasure a curse is attached. Bayard Taylor.

genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record. Facts . . . attested by particular pagan authors. Addison.

A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

gines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."

A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria. Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! Byron.

he gross amount of ship, cargo, and freight at risk and saved by the sacrifice. Kent. -- Particular average signifies the damage or partial loss happening to the ship, or cargo, or freight, in consequence of some fortuitous or unavoidable accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or b…

A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

d to the crown of the large one. -- To back the field, in horse racing, to bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win. -- To back the oars, to row backward with the oars. -- To back a rope, to put on a preventer. -- To back the sail…

beginning a game; also, a line around the table, parallel to the sides, used in playing a particular game, called the balk line game.

against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

yllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.

A berry, particularly of the laurel. [Obs.]

tive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for). (c) To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).

d beat. [Low] Beat of drum (Mil.), a succession of strokes varied, in different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to direct an attack, or retreat, etc. -- Beat of a watch, or clock, the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in…

A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course. Bents and turns of the matter. Locke.