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Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements. "The merry madcap

ors, to shut the door. [Obs.] Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. Shak. - To make free with. See under Free, a. -- To make good. See under Good. -- To make head, to make headway. -- To make light of. See under Light, a. -- To make little of. (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily.…

A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor. Fairholt.

Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.

Expense; cost; disbursement. [Obs.]

An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen. Bacon.

The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.

Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange. Negotiable paper, any commercial paper transferable by sale or delivery and indorsement, as bills of exchange, drafts, checks, and promissory notes.

of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements, etc.

e final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.

Neglect or omission to use an easement or franchise or to assert a right. Kent.

The writing which communicates information; an advertisement, or citation, etc.

instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.

To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.

A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.…

That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.

In Great Britain, an officer of the Treasury who makes all payments and disbursements, civil as well as military. He is a member of the ministry, but not of the cabinet.

Punishment; chastisement. [R.]

ating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. Burke.

A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.