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One who boasts.

Rodomontade.

A rodomontadist.

The government or jurisdiction of a sachem. Dr. T. Dwight.

The state or character of a saint. [R.] Tennyson.

The domain or sphere of scoundrels; scoundrels, collectively; the state, ideas, or practices of scoundrels. Carlyle.

Rarely; not often; not frequently. Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. Hooker.

Rareness. Hooker.

A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere.

The state or condition of a serf.

The office or jurisdiction of sheriff. See Shrievalty.

An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

An inhabitant of Sodom.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy. -- Sod`om*it"ic*al*ly, adv.

Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery. Gen. xix. 5.

Divination by means of ashes.

Relating to spodomancy, or divination by means of ashes. C. Kingsley.

Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. [R.]

The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.

One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoölogy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia.