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gar, low, obscene, or impure. The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next. Macaulay.

fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept. Thy next design is on thy neighbor's grounds. Dryden. 4.

The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.

s, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson.

hese sighs, these profound heaves, You must translate. Shak. None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them. Dryden.

The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.

Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill. Milton.

confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard. They . . . put them in hold unto the next day. Acts. iv. 3. King Richard, he is in the mighty hold Of Bolingbroke. Shak.

line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words.

Incapable of ebign relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable. [R.] O! how I burn with implacable fire. Spenser. Which wrought them pain Implacable, and many a dolorous groan. Milton.

n which the President of the United States is inaugurated, the 4th of March in every year next after a year divisible by four.

The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.

with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.

The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger.

Infantile; childish. A degree of credulity next infantine. Burke.

On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.

with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease. Shak. My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life. Dryden. Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. Gray.

Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable. "Bands insolvable." Pope.

The arched middle portion of the human foot next in front of the ankle joint.