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grily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate. "In spite of occasional wranglings." Macaulay. For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. Shak. He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points. Addison.

An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. "Noisy and contentious wranglers." I. Watts.

The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.

Contentious; quarrelsome. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A spore, or conceptacle containing zoöspores.

To estrange; to withdraw. [Obs.]

The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [Obs.]

The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.…

nt foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.

o occur; to take place. See under Come. -- To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall we set about some revels Shak. -- Round about, in every direction around.

ect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. Blackw. Mag.

ate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

rding, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder- smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. Shelley.

Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham.

Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke.

te food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.

Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.

ed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.