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A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.] The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Ps. cxxxix. 12.

An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of

An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.

Any. [Obs.] "Without all remedy." Shak.

Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings. Burke.

d which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

owing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

A baser metal mixed with a finer. Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it. Locke.

Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

Without sympathy; unfavorably. To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties. I. Taylor.

A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.

Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.

to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton.

can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. South.

To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks. The skipping king, he ambled up and down. Shak. Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. Shak.

Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.