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eracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error. An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to contract more. A. Tucker.

Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim. Mozley & W.

A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.

ality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.

state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham.

To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.

anumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

To magnetize.[Obs.] Prior. Loaded dice, dice with one side made heavier than the others, so that the number on the opposite side will come up oftenest.

obable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.

ook at a star; hence, to observe, examine, consider; as, to look at a matter without prejudice. -- To look black, to frown; to scowl; to have a threatening appearance. The bishops thereat repined, and looked black. Holinshed. -- To look down on or upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior;…

of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.

An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.

A hand or match at dice. Prior. Thackeray.

ræa. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by a pedicel.

A disease; black jaundice. See Mel.

A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.

A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five. [Obs.] Shak.

The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.

A game adopted from the Indian game, using disks, as of pasteboard, and dice. [U. S. & Eng.]

One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.