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Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for. Neither was there aught missing unto them. 1 Sam. xxv. 7. For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long. Milton.

The restoration of lost parts of the body.

Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.

Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne.

h. What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behavior of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day Addison.

s, of health, of economy. To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame, Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. Milton.

Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.] Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies. Evelyn.

onsideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem. [Obs.] Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion. Shak. This gained Agricola much opinion, who . . . had made such early progress into laborious . . . enterprises. Milton.

the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. Milton.

to overcome; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. Dryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them. Jowett (Thucyd. )

which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.

To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. [Obs.] He lost life . . . upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies. Fuller.

nipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle. They palmed the trick that lost the game. Prior.

the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.

involving parallelism. The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. Milman.

Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close. He should lie perdue who is to walk the round. Fuller.

Lost; thrown away. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. I perish with hunger! Luke xv. 17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. Locke.

A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).

One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.