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An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.

l state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts.

A cringing, servile person; a fawner.

t fear is the mother of safety. Burke. The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them. Hawthorne.

Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human. Some earthborn giant. Milton.

To set the teeth on edge, to cause a disagreeable tingling sensation in the teeth, as by bringing acids into contact with them. Bacon.

The act of drawing out or bringing into view. Eduction pipe, and Eduction port. See Exhaust pipe and Exhaust port, under Exhaust, a.

Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic. Capable of being drawn out by force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its…

Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. South.

A sudden springing or leaping out. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

er corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with the substance.

Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. [R.] Johnson.

To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon. You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds. Shak. Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest. Milton. Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him. Macaulay.…

The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley.

One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.

The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.

Doom or sentence decreed in advance. "A dread foredoom ringing in the ears of the guilty adult." Southey.

rket, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; to dissuade persons from bringing their goods or provisions there; or to persuade them to enhance the price when there. This was an offense at law in England until 1844. Burrill.

Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.

rn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe. Precipices fringed with grass. Bryant. Fringing reef. See Coral reefs, under Coral.