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A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. In garrison, in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison.

Rare; wonderful. [Obs.] Spenser.

A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.

A son's or daughter's son.

A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.

A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton. (b) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.

Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. (b) sing.

opponent, generally behind, and the hand placed upon the back of his neck. In the full nelson both hands are so placed.

A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; - - used to block up a passage.

Enriched with spice and condiments; hence, exciting; piquant.

A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing.

Horrisonous. [Obs.]

Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. [Obs.] Bailey.

Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson River; as, the Hudsonian curlew.

A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.

A fragrant kind of green tea. Hyson skin, the light and inferior leaves separated from the hyson by a winnowing machine. M'Culloch.

Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. -- n.

Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality. An almighty but impersonal power, called Fate. Sir J. Stephen. Impersonal verb (Gram.), a verb used with an indeterminate subject, commonly, in English, with the impersonal pronoun it; as, it rains; it snows; methinks (it seems to me). Many verbs which ar…

The quality of being impersonal; want or absence of personality.

In an impersonal manner.