Gendarmery

n.

The body of gendarmes.

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Glare

n.

A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.

Natural

a.

Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.

Altiloquence

n.

Lofty speech; pompous language.

Facing

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Face

Rent

v. i.

To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

Undispensed

a.

Not freed by dispensation.

Forded

imp. & p. p.

of Ford

Accede

v. i.

To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request.

Heavy

superl.

Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.

Lactean

a.

Lacteal; conveying chyle.

Frost-bitten

p. a.

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

Horizon

n.

A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon.