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n. Amende honorable(#). (Old French Law) A species of infamous punishment in which the offender, being led into court with a rope about his neck, and a lighted torch in his hand, begged pardon of his God, the court, etc. In popular language, the phrase now denotes a public apology or recantation, and reparation to an i…

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

In a soft, tender, amatory style.

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

Capable of rendering insensible; as, anæsthetic agents.

To render insensible by an anæsthetic. Encyc. Brit.

s to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

enly; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay. Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; -- so called from its beginning with the song of the heavenly host recorded in Luke ii. 14. Eadie.

To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic. It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man. W. Taylor.

two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles of the heart. Milton.

To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.

To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

at, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keepi…

To render account to or for. I will . . . send him to answer thee. Shak.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.

tion or title; a descriptive name. God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them. Jer. Taylor.

ceptive. [R.] Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. Milton.