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See Pansy. [Obs.] Dryden.

crepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot. There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber.

The state or quality of being flippant. This flippancy of language. Bp. Hurd.

The act of taking or holding possession; possession; occupation. Title by occupancy (Law), a right of property acquired by taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it. Blackstone. Kent.

The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.

ive action or development; exuberance; extravagance. "They are come to this height and rampancy of vice." South.

To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. Goldsmith.

Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety. Locke.

estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone.

The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.

The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham.

habiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy. Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance. Carew.

The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy as a dwelling place. [Obs.] Shak.

ading matter printed side by side, for the purpose of emphasizing the similarity or discrepancy between them. -- Parallel forces (Mech.), forces which act in directions parallel to each other. -- Parallel motion. (a) (Mach.) A jointed system of links, rods, or bars, by which the motion of a reciprocating piece, as a…

having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.

. A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.

A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. Overbury. When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. Luke xiv. 8.

One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.

nding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts. [R.] -- Sub*sul"to*ri*ly, adv. [R.] Flippancy opposed to solemnity, the subsultory to the continuous, -- these are the two frequent extremities to which the French manner betrays men. De Quincey.