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Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.

To render unaccustomed.

To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar. We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge. Milton.

ation or disruption of the union of the States forming the United States. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion. D. Webster.

A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.

An earring. [Obs.] The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. Judg. viii. 24 (Douay version).

waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. Political economy. See under Political.

One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer. Milton.

To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin.

To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to…

or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required. No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.

d a three part flask, four part flask, etc. Erlenmeyer flask, a thin glass flask, flat-bottomed and cone-shaped to allow of safely shaking its contents laterally without danger of spilling; -- so called from Erlenmeyer, a German chemist who invented it. -- Florence flask. Etym: [From Florence in Italy.] (a) Same as Be…

A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.

parties flinched from the combat. A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining. Locke.

Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- For*bear"ing*ly, adv.

Accustomed to speak without reserve. Bacon. -- Free"-spo`ken-ness, n.

Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor.

The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome. Fringe tree (Bot.), a small tree (Chionanthus Virginica), growing in the Southern United States, and having snow- white flowers, with long pendulous petals.

his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts. Hare.