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A maker of ropes. P. Plowman.

Tricks deserving the halter; roguery. [Obs.] "Saucy merchant . . . so full of his ropery." Shak.

To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. [R.] Shak.

One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.

The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.

Same as Ascites.

Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress. Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service, Improper for a slave. Shak. And to their proper operation still, Ascr…

The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. [Obs.] Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne

A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual. Grove.

In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.

Impropriety. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the interoperculum. -- n.

The postero-inferior opercular bone, in fishes.

Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.

Pleuropneumonia.

Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.

The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.

Belonging to one; one's own; individual. "His proper good" [i. e., his own possessions]. Chaucer. "My proper son." Shak. Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast. Dryden.

To hasten, or press forward. [Obs.]

The act of hastening; haste. [Obs.] T. Adams.