n.
That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor. →
a.
Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. →
v. i.
To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. →
superl.
Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander. →
a.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (Ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid. →
n.
Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another. →
n.
A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance. →