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ed by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.

The most important are the Da"i*ra Sa"ni*eh, or Sa"ni*yeh, and the Da"i*ra Khas"sa, administered by the khedive's European bondholders, and known collectively as the Daira, or the Daira estates.

A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.

A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.

Sacred. [R.] To take her from austerer check of parents, To make her his by most devoutful rights. Marston.

Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.

Capable of being dispensed or administered.

a system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers.

stian courts. [Eng.] -- Ecclesiastical law, a combination of civil and canon law as administered in ecclesiastical courts. [Eng.] -- Ecclesiastical modes (Mus.), the church modes, or the scales anciently used. -- Ecclesiastical States, the territory formerly subject to the Pope of Rome as its temporal ruler; -- called…

To fester. [Obs.] "Enfestered sores." Davies (Holy Roode).

To register; to enroll or record; to inregister. To read enregistered in every nook His goodness, which His beauty doth declare. Spenser.

A jolly companion; a roisterer. [Obs.] Shak.

In an equitable manner; justly; as, the laws should be equitably administered.

A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.

Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered. The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. Milton.

Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.

at shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.

old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.

The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster. [Colloq.]

A blusterer; a rowdy. [Obs.] Unpolished, a frapler, and base. B. Jonson.