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fic purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket. We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives. Tillotso…

A stickler for rules; a slave of rules [R.] Hare.

Destitute of rule; lawless. Spenser.

One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor. And he made him ruler over all the land. Gen. xii. 43. A prince and ruler of the land. Shak.

A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.

Blue; cerulean. [Obs.] Dyer.

Sky-colored; blue; azure. Cowper. Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. Bryant.

A fast dyestuff, C20H8O6, made by heating gallein with strong sulphuric acid. It dyes mordanted fabrics green.

Cerulean. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Tending to cerulean; light bluish.

A greenish blue pigment prepared in various ways, consisting essentially of cobalt stannate. Unlike other cobalt blues, it does not change color by gaslight.

A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

Full of ashes. [Obs.]

istrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.

One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.

A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.

To punish with a ferule.

Flowery; blossoming. [Obs.] Blount.

A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.

A half spherule.