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The art or method of determining the coloring power of indigo.

ntal; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them. We are more industrious than our forefathers, because in the present times the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those wh…

A body of children. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.

Jesuitism; subtle argument. [R.] Carlyle.

The act or practice of jesting. [Obs.]

Same as Cantred.

The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian [i. e., conscience] of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.

See Lieutenancy. [Obs.]

The worship of a stone or stones.

The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths. Cheyne.

ip of, or reverence for, a lord as such. [Jocose] But how should it be otherwise in a country where lordolatry is part of our creed Thackeray.

rties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.

Mohammedanism. [Obs.]

Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Mawmetry. [Obs.]

The worship of the Virgin Mary.

Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, and the like, of several colors.

Mariolatry.

The religion of Mohammed; also, idolatry. See Mawmet. [Obs.] Chaucer.