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Hateful; detestable. [Obs.]

A sauce (such as egg and bread crumbs) used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying.

chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.

A little castle.

Same as Castellany.

A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot. Loudon.

A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufchâtel- en-Bray in France.

f the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute. Whately.

Abuse. [Obs.] Whately (1634).

admitting of a double construction; e. g., "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose." Whately.

syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives. Whately.

Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.

oposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously. J. S. Mill.

positions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum. Whately.

ake worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. Whately. The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated. Southey.

it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to. Whately.

r other fluid. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. Whately.

king or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. "The elocution of a reader." Whately

d the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers. Whately.

r object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. Whately.