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DISOBEDIENCY n.
Disobedience.
DISOBEDIENT a. 2 definitions
commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. Burke. Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. 1 Kings xiii. 26.
DISOBEDIENTLY adv.
In a disobedient manner.
EMBED v.
To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
EMBEDMENT n.
The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.
ESCRIBED a.
Drawn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.
FULL-ORBED a.
Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.
GARBED a.
Dressed; habited; clad.
HONEYCOMBED a.
Formed or perforated like a honeycomb. Each bastion was honeycombed with casements. Motley.
HOTBED n. 2 definitions
A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.
IMBED v.
To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.
IMPERTURBED a.
Not perturbed.
INOBEDIENCE n.
Disobedience. [Obs.] Wyclif. Chaucer.
INOBEDIENT a.
Not obedient; disobedient. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- In`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv. [Obs.]
KIBED a.
Chapped; cracked with cold; affected with chilblains; as kibed heels. Beau. & Fl.
KNOBBED a.
e Illust of Antenna. The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.
LADY'S BEDSTRAW n.
The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.
LIMBED a.
Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed. Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms, Limbed and full grown. Milton.
LOBED a.
Having lobes; lobate.
MISBEDE v.
To wrong; to do injury to. [Obs.] Who hath you misboden or offended Chaucer.
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