Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
v. t.
To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads. →
n.
An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates. →
Leopard's bane. →