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Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. South.

recognize; to consider. This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.

poses of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin.

Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical. [R.] Hare.

Undisguised. " Bald egotism." Lowell.

In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.

A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

legitimate. The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. Love is begot by fancy. Granville.

o pay to some person designated a certain sum of money therein generally is, and, to be negotiable, must be, made payable to order or to bearer. So also the order generally expresses a specified time of payment, and that it is drawn for value. The person who draws the bil is called the drawer, the person on whom it is…

One who negotiates the discount of bills.

A small paper; a note; a short letter. "I got your melancholy billet." Sterne.

The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.

Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear- eyed bigot.

him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment. Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. M. Green.

A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.