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Of or pertaining to us; belonging to us; as, our country; our rights; our troops; our endeavors. See I. The Lord is our defense. Ps. lxxxix. 18.

The orang-outang.

See Orang-outang.

See Uranographist.

See Uranography.

A small, graceful, and swift African antelope, allied to the klipspringer.

Uric.

See Urology.

Ourology.

See Note under Our.

; sing. Ourself (we; also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective case. We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal further then we usually do. Locke. Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand. Dryden.

To encourage. [Obs.]

To treat courteously; to court. [Obs.] Spenser.

Purveyor; acater. [Obs.] Chaucer.

for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak.

Adjournment; postponement. [R.] "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.…

A game at cards, called "High, Low, Jack, and the Game."

r; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. In amours with, in love with. [Obs.]