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To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.

inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants. Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. "The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans." Fuller. -- Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue, under Methylene. -- Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Pure mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats o…

Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken. Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will. Milton. The same actions may be aimed at different ends, and arise from quite contrary principles. Spectator.

In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective.

To take notice of, or to observe, mentally; as, to remark the manner of a speaker.

To cut off; to abrogate; to annul. The blessed Jesus . . . did sacramentally rescind the impure relics of Adam and the contraction of evil customs. Jer. Taylor.

To change totally; to alter to the opposite. Reverse the doom of death. Shak. She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray. Sir W. Scott.

Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally. R. A. Proctor.

them to flight in disorder; to put to rout. That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. Clarendon.

fice hit (Baseball), in batting, a hit of such a kind that the batter loses his chance of tallying, but enables one or more who are on bases to get home or gain a base.

Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.

s of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account. Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used. Shak.

ving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible. Would your cambric were sensible as your finger. Shak.

A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.

sistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced…

se is not only to afford practical skill in some trade, but also to develop the pupils mentally and physically.

sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.

lown into the air from a mountain peak, often having a pinkish color and extending horizontally for several miles across the sky.