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Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone. T. Warton.

act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation. T. Warton.

To thwart; to obstruct. [Obs.] Chapman.

A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree. R. H. Dana, Jr.

true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment. Stewart.

A female juggler. T. Warton.

tice. The talents of Abelard were not confined to theology, jurisprudence, philosophy. J. Warton. Medical jurisprudence, that branch of juridical law which concerns questions of medicine.

Of or pertaining to jurisprudence. Stewart.

, situated like the keelson of a timber ship. Cross keelson, a similar structure lying athwart the main keelson, to support the engines and boilers.

In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a reconstruction of the land laws. -- Land"*lea`guer (#), n. -- Land"*lea`guism (#), n.

lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn. Musing through the lawny park. T. Warton.

A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.

ing to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship. T. Warton.

Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated. T. Warton. Macaulay. Maiden assize (Eng. Law), an assize which there is no criminal prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with blood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. Smart…

The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.

A writer of martyrology; an historian of martyrs. T. Warton.

Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. "In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous." Internat. Cyc.

Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.

The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii).

; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. Stewart. The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller.