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Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.

Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.

Same as Darraign. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ed as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.

A triple alliance; specif., the alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy, formed in 1882.

To drain. [Obs.] Congreve.

p. p. of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton.

A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, e…

Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.

The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.

Foreign. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.

transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.

The transportation of freight.

One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.

Destitute of freight.

In Germany and Austria, a baron.

Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process.