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State or mode of being nourished. Bacon.

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.

or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish. Anglo-American, . Of or pertaining to the English and Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America. -- n. A descendant from English ancestors born in America, or the United States. Anglo-Danish, a. Of or pertai…

; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser.

incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue. Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment. Sir I. Newton. His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. Merivale.

A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.

Authoriship. [R.]

Capable of self-nourishment; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, as opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.

s which he avouches does appear. Shak. Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish. Spenser.

her. Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. Matt. viii. 25.

deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

A place where the nourishment and care of babies are offered for hire.

ad of the shops, or balsam of Mecca. This has a yellowish or greenish color, a warm, bitterish, aromatic taste, and a fragrant smell. It is valued as an unguent and cosmetic by the Turks. The fragrant herb Dracocephalum Canariense is familiarly called balm of Gilead, and so are the American trees, Populus balsamifera,…

An Irish measure of two feet in length.

To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.

To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. Milton.

tancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.

An Irish serving woman or girl. [Colloq.]