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Votary \Vo"ta*ry\, a. [From L. votus, p. p. vovere to vow, to devote. See Vote, Vow.] Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.

Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom.
--Bacon.

Votary \Vo"ta*ry\, n.; pl. Votaries. One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life. ``You are already love's firm votary.''
--Shak.

'T was coldness of the votary, not the prayer, that was in fault.
--Bp. Fell.

But thou, my votary, weepest thou?
--Emerson.

Unsorted \Un*sort"ed\, a.

1. Not sorted; not classified; as, a lot of unsorted goods.

2. Not well selected; ill-chosen.

   The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you named uncertain; the time itself unsorted.
   --Shak.

Pelasgian \Pe*las"gi*an\, Pelasgic \Pe*las"gic\, a. [L. Pelasgus, Gr. ? a Pelasgian.]

1. Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, an ancient people of Greece, of roving habits.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Wandering.

ocher mutation \o"cher mu"tation\ n. [A humorous variation on the term amber mutation.] (Microbiology, Molecular biology) A mutation in which the base sequence of one of the codons in the messenger RNA has been converted to UAA. Such a mutation may be conditionally suppressed, as can an amber mutation, by the presence of a special transfer RNA. -- ocher mutant, n.

Endophragmal \En`do*phrag"mal\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the endophragma.

Pot \Pot\, n. [Akin to LG. pott, D. pot, Dan. potte, Sw. potta, Icel. pottr, F. pot; of unknown origin.]

1. A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.

2. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

3. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale. ``Give her a pot and a cake.''
   --De Foe.

4. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.

5. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.

6. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.

7. A perforated cask for draining sugar.
   --Knight.

8. A size of paper. See Pott.

9. marijuana. [slang]

10. The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool; also (Racing, Eng.) a horse heavily backed; a favorite. [Slang]

11. (Armor) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also pot helmet.

12. (Card Playing) The total of the bets at one time; the pool. Jack pot. See under 2d Jack. Pot cheese, cottage cheese. See under Cottage. Pot companion, a companion in drinking. Pot hanger, a pothook. Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market. Pot metal.

    1. The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron.

    2. An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts.
       --Ure.

    3. A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot.
       --Knight.

       Pot plant (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot.

       Pot wheel (Hydraul.), a noria.

       To go to pot, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.]
       --Dryden.
       --J. G. Saxe.

Mistful \Mist"ful\, a. Clouded with, or as with, mist.

Lead \Lead\, v. i.

1. To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or pre["e]minence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t.

2. To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.

   The mountain foot that leads towards Mantua.
   --Shak.

   To lead off or To lead out, to go first; to begin; as, Mickey Mantle led off in the fifth inning of the game.

Tabes \Ta"bes\ (t[=a]"b[=e]z), n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.

Tabes dorsalis (t[=a]"b[=e]z d[^o]r*s[=a]"l[i^]s) [NL., tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called simply tabes.

Tabes mesenterica[NL., mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration.

Ransom \Ran"som\ (r[a^]n"s[u^]m), n. [OE. raunson, raunsoun, OF. ran[,c]on, raen[,c]on, raan[,c]on, F. ran[,c]on, fr. L. redemptio, fr. redimere to redeem. See Redeem, and cf. Redemption.]

1. The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
   --Dryden.

2. The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.

   Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems.
   --Milton.

   His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty.
   --Sir J. Davies.

3. (O. Eng. Law) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
   --Blackstone.

   Ransom bill (Law), a war contract, valid by the law of nations, for the ransom of property captured at sea and its safe conduct into port.
   --Kent.

Ransom \Ran"som\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ransomed (-s[u^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Ransoming.] [Cf. F. ran[,c]onner. See Ransom, n.]

1. To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.

2. To exact a ransom for, or a payment on. [R.]

   Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year.
   --Berners.

Peltryware \Pelt"ry*ware`\, n. Peltry. [Obs.]

Birthright \Birth"right`\, n. Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.

Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
--Heb. xii. 16.

Jabber \Jab"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jabbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Jabbering.] [Cf. Gibber, Gabble.] To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter.
--Swift.

Jabber \Jab"ber\, v. t. To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French.
--Addison.

Jabber \Jab"ber\, n. Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
--Swift.

Windward \Wind"ward\, n. The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; -- opposed to leeward.

To lay an anchor to the windward, a figurative expression, signifying to adopt precautionary or anticipatory measures for success or security.

Windward \Wind"ward\, a. Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands.

Windward \Wind"ward\, adv. Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.

Block \Block\ (bl[o^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blocked (bl[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Blocking.] [Cf. F. bloquer, fr. bloc block. See Block, n.]

1. To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor; to block an entrance.

   With moles . . . would block the port.
   --Rowe.

   A city . . . besieged and blocked about.
   --Milton.

2. To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.

3. To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.

4. to cause (any activity) to halt by creating an obstruction; as, to block a nerve impulse; to block a biochemical reaction with a drug.

   To block out, to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out; to outline; as, to block out a plan.

Soothsayer \Sooth"say`er\, n.

1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A mantis.

Mismatch \Mis*match"\, v. t. To match unsuitably.

Ectopia \Ec*to"pi*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ek out + ? place.] (Med.) A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.

Ord \Ord\ ([^o]rd), n. [AS. ord point.] An edge or point; also, a beginning. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
--Chaucer.

Ord and end, the beginning and end. Cf. Odds and ends, under Odds. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
--Chaucer.
--Halliwell.

Butment \But"ment\, n. [Abbreviation of Abutment.]

1. (Arch.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

2. (Masonry) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.

   Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear.
   --Knight.

Cheek \Cheek\ (ch[=e]k), n. [OE. cheke, cheoke, AS. ce[`a]ce, ce[`o]ce; cf. Goth. kukjan to kiss, D. kaak cheek; perh. akin to E. chew, jaw.]

1. The side of the face below the eye.

2. The cheek bone. [Obs.]
   --Caucer.

3. pl. (Mech.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.

4. pl. The branches of a bridle bit.
   --Knight.

5. (Founding) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.

6. Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang]

   Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef.

   Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar bone.

   Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate.

   Cheek pouch (Zo["o]l.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food.

   Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block.

   Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest.

   Cheek tooth (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth.

   Butment cheek. See under Butment.

Drunkard \Drunk"ard\, n. [Drunk + -ard.] One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.

The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. -- Prov. xxiii. 21.

Ichthin \Ich"thin\ ([i^]k"th[i^]n), n. [Gr. 'ichqy`s fish.] (Physiol. Chem.) A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.