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To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for. Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread. Cowley.

Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation. The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races. Macaulay.

s between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard. Deut. xxiii. 2 (Douay version).

The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie.

A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show. Bacon. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask. Milton.

y of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope.

boy. Where there are little masters and misses in a house, they are impediments to the diversions of the servants. Swift.

y condition or coagent; instrument. Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ. Hooker. You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements. Coleridge. Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. Sir W. Hamilton.

A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden.

bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. -- Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace. -- Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. -- Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones. -- Mill pond, a pond tha…

The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.

The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere.

To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to; as, to mislike a man. Who may like or mislike what he says. I. Taylor.

Dislike; aversion.

To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of. Gov. Winthrop.

To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask. With mumming and with masking all around. Spenser.

One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon. Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers. Milton.

given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc. Conspiracy and mutual promise. Sir T. More. Happy in our mutual help, And mutual love. Milton. A certain shyness on such subjects, which was mutual between the sisters. G. Eliot.

Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original.

estament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.