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Subjection to the direction or disposal of another; inability to help or provide for one's self. Reduced to a servile dependence on their mercy. Burke.

he European robin. The name is also given to other related species. -- Dial lock, a lock provided with one or more plates having numbers or letters upon them. These plates must be adjusted in a certain determined way before the lock can be operated. -- Dial plate, the plane or disk of a dial or timepiece on which lin…

itchen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

d marking differences. To make an anxious discrimination between the miracle absolute and providential. Trench.

making differences; discriminating. "Discriminative censure." J. Foster. "Discriminative Providence." Dr. H. More.

generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke.

inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.

ng persons or things; a palanquin. [Written also doolee and doolie.] [East Indies] Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent. J. D. Hooker.

Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak.

day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley. The drama and contrivances of God's providence. Sharp.

To select by the drawing of lots. Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn. Freeman.

of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.

rst; -- opposed to Ant: late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit. Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. Burke. The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them. Hawthorne.

hich finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.

To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.

ency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.

To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.

The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.

lous. The Jews . . . [were] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for. Hooker.

ly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view. Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportioned strength. Milton.