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The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. [Obs.] The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.

earer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lesen; as, to contract one's shpere of action. In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties. Dr. H. More.

Relating to a cooper; coopered. [Obs.] Coopery vessels made of wood. Holland.

The common name of the kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens.

Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.

Overcome by liquor; tipsy. [Slang] Cut and dried, prepered beforehand; not spontaneous. -- Cut glass, glass having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures. -- Cut nail, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail. -- Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape af…

earded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.

A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.

An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceæ inhabiting a temperate clime.

seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience. This, in our foresaid holy father's name, Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. Shak.

e king's subjects as much as they would willingly give, . . . had not to complain of many peremptory denials. Hallam.

A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. Sir W. Scott.

ament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving. "Diapered light." H. Van Laun. Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers. Tennyson.

Doubt-dispelling; decisive. [R.] A kind of peremptory and discussive voice. Hopkins.

ate; to change the due proportions of. [Obs.] When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered. Chaucer.

Distempered state; distemperature. [Obs.] Feltham.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. [Written also doub grass.]

he ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry. Motley.

A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.