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A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

A dress; a robe. [Obs.] Shak.

A great multitude . . . stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme in their hands. Rev. vii. 9.

Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural. [Obs.] Lords in paraments on their coursers. Chaucer. Chamber of paraments, presence chamber of a monarch.

A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel. [British Slang] See Bobby.

ing politics, we often mean that they are wrangling about some mere party question. F. W. Robertson.

a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark. [Written also probeagle.]

A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.

ogether); to enchain. [Obs.] Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led Together prisoned. Robert of Brunne.

bation. Hence, specifically: (a) The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule. (b) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor. (c) Moral trial; the state of man in the p…

tion of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents. Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed. Spenser.

Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple. Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined l…

ocated part, to its place. -- To put off. (a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to put off mortality. "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet." Ex. iii.

A Sprengel explosive consisting of potassium chlorate and mono- nitrobenzene.

ial reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses. F. W. Robertson.

The state or condition of having recoiled. The recoil from formalism is skepticism. F. W. Robertson.

. [Archaic] From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection. Robertson.

's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand. Robertson. This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate. Addison.

To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe. Her, nathless, . . . the enchanterrevest and decked with due habiliments. Spenser.

nderstanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. F. W. Robertson.