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te or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought. God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. Gen. i. 25. He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt. Gen. xiv. 23. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Keats.

Altogether. [Obs.] Shak.

The national assembly or parliament of Iceland. See Thing, n., 8.

Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.

Act of taking a bath or baths. Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.

The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. Smyth.

Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.

Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth.

ts in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth. Ps. xxxv. 13

Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.

Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [Jocular] Carlyle. Miss Austen.

Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things. More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope.

A very small quantity or value. [Obs.] In her cup was no farthing seen of grease. Chaucer.

the petticoat. We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things. Shak.

The lower house of the Danish Rigsdag, or Parliament. See Legislature, below.

Exaggerated declamation; rant.

The art or business of a gunsmith.

Contempt; scorn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." Gray.