n.
An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary.
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Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. →
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A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads. →
a.
Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement. →
n.
A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at... →
v. t.
To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought. →
n.
One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. →