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Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.

Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.

To declare war with certain ceremonies. [Obs.] Holland.

The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.

A fault or error to be corrected.

A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action. Dunglison.

Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.

Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.

The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.

According to strictness (of etiquette, rule, or the like); obligatory; strictly required.

A half brigade.

in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge. Evensongs and placebo and dirige. Wyclif. Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion. Lamentation of Mary Magdalene.

Directing. Baxter.

Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.

In plain terms; without ceremony. We shall chide downright, id I longer stay. Shak.

To brighten. [Obs.]

Capable of being erected. [Obs.]

A small annual plant (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.

A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.

Ready; directly forward; going before. [Obs.] "A foreright wind." Chapman.