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lled from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge. [Written also, but improperly, lazaroni.]

ks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.

ate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic.

Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange l…

zy person. When a man mistakes his thoughts for person and things, he is mad. A madman is properly so defined. Coleridge.

is marked by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also charbon, and sometimes, improperly, anthrax.

to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.

Improperly, the cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum).

st or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in. Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt 2 Kings xiv. 10. The civil lawyers . . . have meddled…

Fitly; suitably; properly.

Formerly, designating an acid, which is now properly called pyroantimonic acid, and analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.

, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid.

In the middle of a ship; -- properly amidships.

onastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church. Minster house, the official house in which the canons of a cathedral live in common or in rotation. Shipley.

Improperly appreciated.

To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully. [Obs.] W. Browne.

To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

To bestow improperly.

To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.