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Having a site; situated. [Obs.] [The garden] sited was in fruitful soil. Chaucer.

Disposed. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Supplied with perquisites. [Obs.] "Perquisited varlets frequent stand." Savage.

action originating in one's self or in itself. These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited. Tyndall.

cer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]

uvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium. The golden alluvions are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.

crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.

salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks. Ure.

A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it. Chapman.

Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage. [Obs.] Ye may retain as borrows my two priests. Sir W. Scott.

A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. [Obs.] This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. Sir W. Temple. £20,000 are known to be in her cash. Sir R. Winwood.

affected with disease of the kidneys; -- so called because they are formed of matter deposited in, and preserving the outline of, the renal tubes. -- The last cast, the last throw of the dice or last effort, on which every thing is ventured; the last chance.

The place where provisions are deposited. [Obs.]

ss; advice; injunction. In way of caution I must tell you. Shak. Caution money, money deposited by way of security or guaranty, as by a student at an English university.

harnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.