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The science of ideas. Stewart.

m new wholes of our creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power. Stewart.

eland. -- Irish reef, or Irishman's reef (Naut.), the head of a sail tied up. -- Irish stew, meat, potatoes, and onions, cut in small pieces and stewed.

ssed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict. W. H. Steward.

s true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment. Stewart.

To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.

Of or pertaining to jurisprudence. Stewart.

n a conical form during the occurrence of a tornado and heavy rainfall on land. -- Land steward, a person who acts for another in the management of land, collection of rents, etc. -- Land tortoise, Land turtle (Zoöl.), any tortoise that habitually lives on dry land, as the box tortoise. See Tortoise. -- Land warrant…

In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a reconstruction of the land laws. -- Land"*lea`guer (#), n. -- Land"*lea`guism (#), n.

A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.

the Ulva latissima; purlpe laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; - - called also sloke, or sloakan. Mountain laver (Bot.), a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains…

One who is conspicuous or noteworthy; a model or example; as, the lights of the age or of antiquity. Joan of Are, A light of ancient France. Tennyson.

h America, having smooth, shining leaves, and handsome, tuliplike flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch.

A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.

A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.

A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court. Chaucer.

al of the king's household. [Eng.] Court of Marshalsea, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between the king's domestic servants. Blackstone.

A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc.

Liberty; permission; allowance. Thou mayst be no longer steward. Luke xvi. 2.

An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society.