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To mention among other things, or casually or incidentally. [Obs.]

Hence: Mentally; spiritually. Jer. Taylor.

To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood. Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. Milton. He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others. Sir W. Scott.…

To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.

In the heart or mind; mentally; privately; secretas, he inwardly repines.

An arrangement of lace or tulle, looped ornamentally, and worn by women on the front of the dress.

A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a.…

To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with. "It jumps with my humor." Shak. To jump at, to spring to; hence, fig., to accept suddenly or eagerly; as, a fish jumps at a bait; to jump at a chance.

A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.

entary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvæ are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc.

he muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves. Sir T. Browne. Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter. Longfellow.

To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally; hence, to aim or point a weapon in direct line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye, mind, or effort, directly to an object. The foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife. Shak. The glory of God and the good of his church . . . ought to be the mark whereat w…

Crazy; mentally unsound. [Written also loony.] [Law, U.S.]

of Lie, to be supported horizontally. Lying panel (Arch.), a panel in which the grain of the wood is horizontal. [R.] -- Lying to (Naut.), having the sails so disposed as to counteract each other.

To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.

A person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or degeneracy.

Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.

To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.

To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.

Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.