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A county in the north of England. Yorkshire grit, a kind of stone used for polishing marble, and copperplates for engravers. Simmonds. -- Yorkshire pudding, a batter pudding baked under meat.

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

-morrow, about this time." Exod. ix. 18. "About my stature." Shak. He went out about the third hour. Matt. xx. 3.

anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

Quenching thirst, as certain fruits.

Absence of thirst.

A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. [Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.

In a dry or thirsty condition. "A man that is adry." Burton.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.] And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak. Advantage ground, vantage ground. [R.] Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the adv…

To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.

One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.

The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.

ct; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness.

become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

ligation. -- Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH, GHD, as also the angles BGH and GHC, are called alternate angles. -- Alternate generation. (Biol.) See under Generation.…

e. Oriental amethyst, the violet-blue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.