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In an inorganic manner.

Quality of being inorganic. [Obs.] "The inorganity of the soul." Sir T. Browne.

The state of being without organization.

Not having organic structure; devoid of organs; inorganic.

Deviation from correct orthography; bad spelling. [Obs.] Feltham.

Not clear or melodious.

See Knur. [Obs.]

, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained from several varieties of lichen (Lecanora, Roccella, etc.), as a white, crystalline substance, and is called also orsellic, or diorsellinic acid, lecanorin, etc.

See Lecanoric.

A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.

A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.

One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.

or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family. My manors, rents, revenues, l forego. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a manor. " Manorial claims." Paley.

A representation of a sea view.

An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrhoea usitatissima is the lignum-vitæ of Peru, and yelds a valuable black varnish.

Profuse menstruation.

Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.

A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest male heir.

To diminish. [R.] Sir T. Browne.