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To execute, as any delicate work.

A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.

Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.

Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.

y a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases. Dunglison.

To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus Shak.

To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute. I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. Ex. xiv. 17.

To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.] What can the church force more J. Webster.

An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder. James White.

ot intended to be such. Mozley & W. -- Pious fraud (Ch. Hist.), a fraud contrived and executed to benefit the church or accomplish some good end, upon the theory that the end justified the means. -- Statute of frauds (Law), an English statute (1676), the principle of which is incorporated in the legislation of all th…

To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.

A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything. So they hanged Haman on the gallows. Esther vii. 10. If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. Shak. O, there were deso…

country to the clerk of assize and judge's officers, when there are no offenders to be executed. -- Glove sponge (Zoöl.), a fine and soft variety of commercial sponges (Spongia officinalis). -- To be hand and glove with, to be intimately associated or on good terms with. "Hand and glove with traitors." J. H. Newman.…

One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

Lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness. Center of gravity See under Center. -- Gravity battery, See Battery, n., 4. -- Specific gravity, the ratio of the weight of a body to the weight of an equal volume of some other body taken as the standard or unit. This standard is usually water for solids and liquids, and air…

A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.

- Under the hand of, authenticated by the handwriting or signature of; as, the deed is executed under the hand and seal of the owner.

inting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.

An owl of India (Ninox scutellatus). -- Hawk's bill (Horology), the pawl for the rack, in the striking mechanism of a clock.

Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note.