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dent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.

on or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. By autopsy and experiment. Cudworth.

e autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

ar blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color. "In robes of azure." Wordsworth.

ng noise, as shallow water running over stones. In every babbling he finds a friend. Wordsworth.

n; native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire. Whitworth.

A small cooper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.

, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. On the bald top of an eminence. Wordsworth.

A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Taylor (Drink and Welcome).

at bandy. Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without. Cudworth.

erty or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. Shak.

To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.

Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations. "A cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind." Robynson (More's Utopia). "Base ingratitude." Milton.

Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India. Whitworth.

th a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.

A drop of sweat or other liquid. "Cold beads of midnight dew." Wordsworth.

off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.

tion of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty. Coleridge.

to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at leng…

ng all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.