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l; a natural; an innocent. Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shak.

To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify. Every petition . . . doth . . . always import a multitude of speakers together. Hooker.

To import; to signify. [Obs.] "It importunes death." Spenser.

place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some o…

In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.

Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying.

A prefix signifying Indian (i. e., East Indian); of or pertaining of India.

A suffix used to form nouns from verbs, and signifying the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a secondary collective force; as, shipping, clothing.

A prefix signifying among, between, amid; as, interact, interarticular, intermit.

A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.

A prefix signifying within, into, in, inward; as, introduce, introreception, introthoracic.

A combining from (also used adjectively), signifying: Pertaining to, or designating, the characteristic, nitrogenous radical, NOH, called the isonitroso group.

A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.

remainder of the session." Journal H. of R., U. S. -- Joint and several (Law), a phrase signifying that the debt, credit, obligation, etc., to which it is applied is held in such a way that the parties in interest are engaged both together and individually thus a joint and several debt is one for which all the debtor…

A combining form used to signify thousand in forming the names of units of measurement; as, kilogram, kilometer, kilowatt, etc.

A combining form signifying white, colorless; specif. (Chem.), denoting an extensive series of colorless organic compounds, obtained by reduction from certain other colored compounds; as, leucaniline, leucaurin, etc.

Same as Lombard-house. A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns. Fuller.

A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.

A prefix, in names of Scotch origin, signifying son.

prose or verse, are effected. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem. Pope.