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To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell. This proud king . . . studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you. Shak.

ter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations. P. Cyc.

Aside; away. "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness." Jas. i. 21. Let Pleasure go, put Care apart. Keble.

en to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.

An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. [Written corruptly imposthume.]

Relating to an issue of fulfillment. In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment. M. Stuart.

A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.

Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them.

ngs, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. P. Cyc. Arris fillet, a triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimney or wall, to throw off the rain. Gwilt. -- Arris gutter, a gutter of a V form fixed to the eaves of a building. Gwilt.

Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.

gnment. House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled.

A soiling; defilement.

To corrupt; to defile; to contaminate. [Obs.] Blount.

To fill up with alluvial earth. [Obs.] Ray.

The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth. [Obs.]

Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt. Augean stable (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.

In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.

t was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.