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The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival. Another arrival still more important was speedily announced. Macaulay.

A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.

The ministry, in order to ascertain a majority . . . persuaded the queen to create twelve new peers. Smollett. The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation. Gibbon.

A water newt. [Scot. & North of Eng.]

An ask; a water newt. [Local Eng.]

inment. In consequence of the resignations . . . the way to greatness was left clear to a new set of aspirants. Macaulay.

et; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town. The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

rganic tissue. Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment. Sir I. Newton. His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. Merivale.

relations of source, occasion, reason, consequence, or effect; as, at the sight; at this news; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands.

A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use.

; so as to thwart; perversely. All athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news. Shak.

, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Burrill. Blackstone.

The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction. Newton.

the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton.

from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological theories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the p…

perly the supreme court of the emperor. It ceased at the death of each emperor, and was renewed by his successor. It became extinct when the German empire was dissolved, in 1806. The term is now applied to a council of the war department of the Austrian empire, and the members of different provincial chanceries of that…

A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.

that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new shares. H. Spenser.

f exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

tion, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. Blackstone.