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To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder; to prevent. [Obs.] Philips.

Containing pulp; pulpy. " Pulpous fruit." J. Philips. -- Pulp"ous*ness, n.

Formerly, in the Philippines, a political division of the pagan tribes.

ecluse monk or hermit; a recluse life In meditation deep, recluse From human converse. J. Philips.

Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.…

passive. Elizabeth had lost her venture; but if she was bold, she might recoup herself at Philip's cost. Froude. Industry is sometimes recouped for a small price by extensive custom. Duke of Argyll.

g; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere. "Though the fork invade the region of my heart." Shak. Philip, tetrarch of .. the region of Trachonitis. Luke iii. 1.

errors . . . are severely reprehended. Dryden. I nor advise nor reprehend the choice. J. Philips.

ing back. Restive or resty, drawing back, instead of going forward, as some horses do. E. Philips (1658). The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag him [Abraham Holmes] to the gallows became restive, and went back. Macaulay.

be violently agitated; to reel; to totter. The rocking town Supplants their footsteps. J. Philips .

A large and tall glass, or drinking cup. [Obs.] J. Philips.

e, where it was manufactured. -- Saint Ignatius's bean (Bot.), the seed of a tree of the Philippines (Strychnos Ignatia), of properties similar to the nux vomica. -- Saint Jame's shell (Zoöl.), a pecten (Vola Jacobæus) worn by piligrims to the Holy Land. See Illust. under Scallop. -- Saint Jame's wort (Bot.), a kind…

Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock." J. Philips.

tary commands. Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. Milton. Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains. Hallam.

ad him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips.

ak. Let the arched knife well sharpened now assail the spreading shades of vegetables. J. Philips.

Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.

lender diet. The good Ostorius often deigned To grace my slender table with his presence. Philips.

l-dissected kernels; lo! In each observe the slender threads Of first-beginning trees. J. Philips.

aged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips.