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d, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority. Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares. Milton.

(one's self) unrestrainedly ; -- often in a bad sense. He abandoned himself . . . to his favorite vice. Macaulay.

ecies (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; diversion. His favorite amusements were architecture and gardening. Macaulay.

A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer. [Cant]

ure. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.

nd covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. Caddice fly (Zoöl.), a species of trichopterous insect, whose larva is the caddice.

n ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

yophyllaseous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds.

A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

A favorite dish in Barbary. See Couscous.

One dearly beloved; a favorite. And can do naught but wail her darling's loss. Shak.

exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John Gay deserved to be a favorite. Thackeray. Encouragement is not held out to things that deserve reprehension. Burke.

, sometimes with to or into. They devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favorite. Burke. They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty. Addison.

A darling; a favorite. [Obs.] Whilst the birds billing, Each one with his dilling. Drayton.

dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away. They blame the favorites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should . . . resolve to discard them. Swift.

ls and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study. To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed. Milton. Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process. Transl. of Lavoisier.

A favorite; a paramour; an ingle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ractices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism. The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory. Gladstone.