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entina); a kind of flower-de- luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets. Orris pea (Med.), an issue pea made from orris root. -- Orris root, the fragrant rootstock of the orris.

Horrisonous. [Obs.]

Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. [Obs.] Bailey.

or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played. The nine-men's morris is filled up with mud. Shak.

A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised.

A Moorish pike. [Obs.]

Not arrayed in the dress of a morris dancer. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.

Withdraw; separate. [Obs.] The more abstract . . . we are from the body. Norris.

y be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roo…

t of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.

things. I am far from commending those ascetics that take up their quarters in deserts. Norris. Ascetic theology, the science which treats of the practice of the theological and moral virtues, and the counsels of perfection. Am. Cyc.

nsion; force of acting; energy; impetus. [Archaic] The full bent and stress of the soul. Norris.

k, v. i., 2. The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. W. E. Norris.

The quality of being communicative. Norris.

A state of confusion. Norris.

Inclined to contradict or cavil [Obs.] Sharp. -- Con`tra*dic"tious*ness, n. Norris.

iding over each country. Law. Conjunctions joint sentences and coördinate terms. Rev. R. Morris. Coördinate adjectives, adjectives disconnected as regards ane another, but referring equally to the same subject. -- Coördinate conjunctions, conjunctions joining independent propositions. Rev. R. Morris.…

from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy. Norris.

iceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable. Shaftesbury. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. Norris. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*bly, adv.