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The rank or condition of a brevet officer.

See under Rocket.

A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. Crabb.

To treat irreverently or with disrespect. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.

A grove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The state or quality of being impreventable. [R.]

Not preventable; invitable.

Incapable of being revealed. -- Ir`re*veal"a*bly, adv.

The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.

Irreverent. [Obs.] Immodest speech, or irreverend gesture. Strype.

Not reverent; showing a want of reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an irreverent jest.

In an irreverent manner.

The state or quality of being irreversible; irreversibleness.

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.

A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.

The state or quality of being irreversible.

In an irreversible manner.

A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.

In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. [Obs.] Fabyan.