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Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. Burrill.

Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes. Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate. Oliphant.

way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley. The drama and contrivances of God's providence. Sharp.

fellow; a sluggard. By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.

The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke.

To take in with the ears; to hear. [Sportive] "I eared her language." Two Noble Kinsmen.

A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.

ternal art educing good from ill. Pope. They want to educe and cultivate what is best and noblest in themselves. M. Arnold.

h to egoism or thoughts of self. I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle.

r, and mica are the elements of granite. The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn. Jowett (Thucyd.).

To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character.

Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.

eveloped state; in conception, but not yet executed. "The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo." Swift.

ther in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry. A noble emulation heats your breast. Dryden.

Capable of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.

Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.

above us. Ray. No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more. Milton. Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave. Pope.

Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph. The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech. Milton. Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally. Lowell.

y of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights. A footing of equality with nobles. Macaulay.

An officer of princes or nobles, charged with the care of their horses.