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ns have since been published. [Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay version.]

ring. [Obs.] The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. Judg. viii. 24 (Douay version).

A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.

The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.

An unnatural eversion of the eyelids.

ture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.

The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.

hange of an irregular flower to a regular form; - - considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qipod, which in the "Authorized Version" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine. I will make it [Babylon] a possession for the ericius and pools of waters. Is. xiv. 23 (Douay version).

That which falls to one; a reversion or return To make me great by others' loss is bad escheat. Spenser.

ion of which a person is entitled to have at some future time, either as a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one. Burrill.

expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire. Deut. xviii. 10 (Douay version)

ng to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying. "Expurgatory animadversions." Sir T. Browne. Expurgatory Index. See Index Expurgatorius, under Index.

The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.

e fierce winds have no power to extinguish. Prescott. This extinguishes my right to the reversion. Blackstone.

B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. "The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in." Macaulay. -- To fall into one's hands, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to f…

s of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion. The innocent diversions in fashion. Locke. As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. H. Spencer.

ive on figs. "Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns." Jer. i. 39. (Douay version). -- Fig gnat (Zoöl.), a small fly said to be injurious to figs. -- Fig leaf, the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve (Genesis iii.7), a covering for a thing that ought to be concealed; es…

A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.