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rupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.

The heart; spirit; temper; disposition. [Obs.] So priketh hem nature in here corages. Chaucer. My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh, and this soft courage makes your followers faint. Shak.

Healing the distemper of cows.

A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion. [Prov. Eng.] Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks. Carlyle.

The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.

A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.

st important work, the "Critique of Pure Reason." - - Critical point (Physics), a certain temperature, different for different gases, but always the same for each gas, regarded as the limit above which no amount of pressure can produce condensation to a liquid.

Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.

lt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie.

A thermometer for the measurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury.

Humor; temper of mind. [Colloq.] Dickens.

ssure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures.

s, a deaf nut; deaf corn. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught. Holland. Deaf and dumb, without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech. See Deaf-mute.

or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke. A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. South. Her pride debauc…

The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall.

One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness. Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance. Sprat.

To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance. Various ails debilitate the mind. Jenyns. The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott.

h four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceæ inhabiting a temperate clime.

To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey.