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ote one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

To decide, or determine generally. South. There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate. Shak.

A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural. Inquiries into the arcana of the Godhead. Warburton.

m in armwe went along." Tennyson. -- To keep at arm's length, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.

A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. Simmonds.

A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

Because; since; it being the case that. As the population of Scotland had been generally trained to arms . . . they were not indifferently prepared. Sir W. Scott. [See Synonym under Because.]

To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like. The papal authority . . . assailed. Hallam. They assailed him with keen invectiv…

The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.

lly, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one…

A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle.

Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical. Huxley.

high as 200 H. P. for specially built racing cars. Automobiles are also commonly, and generally in British usage, called motor cars.

ll be equal to each other. -- Spiral axis (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without. -- Axis of abscissas and Axis of ordinates. See Abscissa.

The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.

remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.

tful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.

ported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.

To keep steady; to steady, morally. 'T is charity must ballast the heart. Hammond.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.