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Plaintive; -- a term applied to a mournful or pathetic movement or style. Moore.

A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.

A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler. [Obs.] Holinshed.

A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck. Knight.

A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Central and South America.

Matrimony. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to marriage; derived from marriage; connubial; nuptial; hymeneal; as, matrimonial rights or duties. If he relied upon that title, he could be but a king at courtesy, and have rather a matrimonial than a regal power. Bacon.

In a matrimonial manner.

Matrimonial. [R.] Milton.

k. If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confessit. Book of Com. Prayer (Eng. Ed. )

ancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies. Ford.

See Merrymake, n.

Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic. "Follies and light merriment." Spenser. Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment. Milton.

See Mormal.

A Japanese covered litter, carried by men. B. Taylor.

getable life; food; aliment. The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body. South.

Nutritious.

A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet. It was used by Byron in "Don Juan," by Keats in "Isabella," by Shelley in "The Witch of Atlas," etc.

To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate.