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reat genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact. Addison.

y; heartfelt. [R.] The baron stood afar off, or knelt in submissive, acknowledged, infelt inferiority. Milman.

A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal. Cowell.

The postero-inferior opercular bone, in fishes.

om the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa. False jalap, the root of Mirabilis Jalapa, four-o'clock, or marvel of Peru.

A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of inferior value, which in the autumn runs up all the larger rivers between San Francisco and Kamchatka.

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. [Obs.] "Lag souls." Dryden.

The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.

worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.

A group of orders inferior to a class. Legion of honor, an order instituted by the French government in 1802, when Bonaparte was First Consul, as a reward for merit, both civil and military.

Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before.

Less; smaller; inferior. God made . . . the lesser light to rule the night. Gen. i. 15.

shed. -- To look down on or upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise. -- To look for. (a) To expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship. "Look now for no enchanting voice." Milton. (b) To seek for; to search for; as, to look for lost money, or lost cattle. -- To lo…

Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.

A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.

The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.

as a wrapping paper, and as a cheap printing and writing paper. The name is also given to inferior papers, made of other fiber.

The maxillo-turbinal, or inferior turbinate, bone.

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance.