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To deprive of a garrison. Hewyt.

Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.

nal neglect; omission of notice; want of attention; slight. The disregard of experience. Whewell.

To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. [Obs.] My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences. W. Caxton. I shall . . . your cloister do make. Piers Plowman. A fatal plague which many did to die. Spenser. We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churche…

eld as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. Whewell.

cane (Bot.), a west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech. -- Dumb crambo. See under crambo. -- Dumb show. (a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown in pantomime. "Inexplicable dumb shows and…

A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound. Whewell.

Receiving by the ear. [Obs.] Hewyt.

To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as oxen." Dan. iv. 25. They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. Ps. cvi. 28. The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. Gen. xli. 20. The lion had not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28. With stori…

as, the effect of luxury. The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. Whewell.

Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial line. Whewell.

To deduce logically, as conclusions. [Obs.] Hewyt.

ter of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance. The Apostles, so far as they evangelized, might claim the tittle though there were many evangelists who were…

The libration of the moon. Whewell.

To happen. [Obs.] Hewyt.

the human soul. Sir. M. Hale. The principles which art involves, science alone evolves. Whewell. Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. J. C. Shairp.

strange arts." Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.

Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.

of domestic habits. "The Jews are generally, when married, most exemplary family men." Mayhew. -- Family of curves or surfaces (Geom.), a group of curves or surfaces derived from a single equation. -- In a family way, like one belonging to the family. "Why don't we ask him and his ladies to come over in a family way,…

A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received. [Slang] Mayhew.