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Joint help; coöperation. Sir T. Browne.

An adjuvant.

Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or co

An act was] passed in 1866, for vesting in the Conservators of the River Thames the conservancy of the Thames and Isis. Mozley & W.

Having the power or quality of conservation.

or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley.

Same as Cordwain. in England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.

Bowed; bent; curved.

The character in which Sanskrit is written.

To draw back, or cause to draw back. [Obs.] Spenser.

Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvant…

Injurious; disadvantageous. [Obs.] Bacon.

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had been placed, he gave clear indications of future excellence. Prescott. -- D…

Disadvantageous. [Obs.] "Disadvantageous ground." Drayton.

A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz. [Persia]

A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind. Totten.

rphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course.

The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.

To vanish away; to because dissipated and disappear, like vapor. I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated. De Quincey.

The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. Rambler.