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nts, and where men meet for conversation. The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself . .…

r, negotiable paper given in due course of business. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

Serving to compel; compulsory. [R.]

Something added for ornamentation; an accessory. [Obs.] Without vain art or curious complements. Spenser.

A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.

Constraining; compulsory. [R.] "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.

Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory. Bancroft.

An adjunct or accessory. Wordsworth.

A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council. An old lord of the council rated me the other day. Shak.

An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory.

Expressing blame; censuring; reprehensory; inculpating. Adjectives . . . commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense. Walpole.

Cursory; hasty. [Obs.] With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles. Shak.

The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.

Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream. Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. Whewell. -- De*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- De*lu"sive*ness, n.

ch maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first time through the brain a phonetic expression; -- jocosely so called from the analogy of the soun…

A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note. Burrill.

quer. See under Chancellor. -- Exchequer bills or bonds (Eng.), bills of money, or promissory bills, issued from the exchequer by authority of Parliament; a species of paper currency emitted under the authority of the government, and bearing interest.

a; c Cornea; d Sclerotic; e Choroid; f Cillary Muscle; g Cillary Process; h Iris; i Suspensory Ligament; k Prosterior Aqueous Chamber between h and i; l Anterior Aqueous Chamber; m Crystalline Lens; n Vitreous Humor; o Retina; p Yellow spot; q Center of blind spot; r Artery of Retina in center of the Optic Nerve.…

imple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination.

y only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; -- opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to.