Unlaw

v. t.

To deprive of the authority or character of law.

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Vexillary

Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers.

Nonresident

a.

Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands.

Granite

n.

A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.

Repose

v.

To lay at rest; to cause to be calm or quiet; to compose; to rest, -- often reflexive; as, to repose one's self on a couch.

Lazarite

n.

One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.

Reform

v. t.

To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.

Unstring

v. t.

To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads.

Fin-footed

a.

Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.

Find

v. t.

To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.

Hypoderma

n.

An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.

Libbard's bane

Leopard's bane.

Vertical

n.

Vertical position; zenith.