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ine of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. -- Ascending node having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the northern node. Herschel.…

Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall. Brande & C.

ce in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural. Brande. Wharton. Craig. Burrill.

A rich kind of satin manufactured in India. Brande & C.

An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow. Brande & C.

uality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To mingle wi…

The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.

arrant; as, to authorize a report. A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shak.

rence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place. The awfulness of grandeur. Johnson.

A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city. Brande & C.

o the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

nished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire. Barbed wire, a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.

252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner. Brande & C.

Fig.: A magnate or grandee.

A cofferdam. Brande & C.

pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc. Batten door (Arch.), a d…

a, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. Beach flea (Zoöl.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing…

Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.

The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.