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Designating an internal-combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion…

Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.

r a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants. I am a soldier and unapt to weep. Shak.

A female soldier. [Obs.]

The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier.

Like a soldier; soldierly.

Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.

Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. [R.] Shak.

A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.

A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military. A camp of faithful soldiery. Milton.

; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.

In a studied manner.

A student. [R.] W. Irving. Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philosophy. Tillotson.

A woman who plays in tragedy.

Permitting the passage of sound. [R.] Lowell.

Not given an audience; not received or heard.

Free from a corporeal body; disembodied; as, unembodied spirits. Byron.

Inexpedient. [Obs.]

Disobedience. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Disobedient. [Obs.] Milton.