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Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made. Blackstone.…

tled habitation; to travel from place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching, lecturing, etc.

Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel. And Jacob said . . . with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. Gen. xxxii. 9, 10. Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel. Gen.…

Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter. Chaucer. Teaching throughout all Jewry. Luke xxiii. 5.

Shak. Joy is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good. Locke.

A bleaching vat; a kier.

A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.

A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg. [Written also kelt.]

Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee- high.

A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. Leach tub, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached.

d angle (Steam Engine), the angle which the crank maker with the line of centers, in approaching it, at the instant when the valve opens to admit steam. -- Lead screw (Mach.), the main longitudinal screw of a lathe, which gives the feed motion to the carriage.

to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

to limber a gun. To limber up, to change a gun carriage into a four-wheeled vehicle by attaching the limber.

a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will . . . lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live. Ezek. xxxvii. 5, 6.…

nce. It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative. Milton.

a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.

Far-reaching; extensive. " Long views." Burke.

, and the United States. The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto. They are engaged in teaching girls.

In time approaching our own. In that part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds. Locke.

A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.