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Big_Mind,_Big_Heart

City_of_God

Dune

Enchiridion_text

Evolution_II

Full_Circle

Heart_of_Matter

Infinite_Library

Journey_to_the_Lord_of_Power_-_A_Sufi_Manual_on_Retreat

Ken_Wilber_-_Thought_as_Passion

Kosmic_Consciousness

Liber_157_-_The_Tao_Teh_King

Life_without_Death

Mans_Search_for_Meaning

Modern_Man_in_Search_of_a_Soul

My_Burning_Heart

Plotinus_-_Complete_Works_Vol_01

Process_and_Reality

Savitri

Spiral_Dynamics

The_Act_of_Creation

The_Divine_Milieu

The_Republic

The_Seals_of_Wisdom

The_Use_and_Abuse_of_History

The_Way_of_Perfection

The_Wit_and_Wisdom_of_Alfred_North_Whitehead

The_Yoga_Sutras

Toward_the_Future

IN CHAPTERS TITLE

1.jr_-_Any_Soul_That_Drank_The_Nectar

1.whitman_-_A_March_In_The_Ranks,_Hard-prest

1.ww_-_In_The_Pass_Of_Killicranky

ENNEAD_05.02_-_Of_Generation,_and_of_the_Order_of_things_that_Rank_Next_After_the_First.

The_Five,_Ranks_of_The_Apparent_and_the_Real

IN CHAPTERS CLASSNAME

IN CHAPTERS TEXT

00.03_-_Upanishadic_Symbolism

0.00_-_INTRODUCTION

0.00_-_The_Book_of_Lies_Text

0.02_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak

0.03_-_Letters_to_My_little_smile

01.03_-_Mystic_Poetry

01.08_-_A_Theory_of_Yoga

0.10_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Captain

01.10_-_Principle_and_Personality

01.11_-_The_Basis_of_Unity

0_1956-09-14

0_1960-06-Undated

0_1961-04-22

0_1961-04-29

0_1961-09-16

0_1961-11-05

0_1961-12-16

0_1962-03-13

0_1962-05-29

0_1962-06-12

0_1962-06-30

0_1963-01-14

0_1963-07-13

0_1963-08-10

0_1963-08-28

0_1963-12-31

0_1965-05-08

0_1965-06-14

0_1965-12-31

0_1966-09-28

0_1966-10-26

0_1966-12-20

0_1967-04-05

0_1967-05-30

0_1968-02-14

0_1968-02-17

0_1968-11-02

0_1969-06-04

0_1969-08-09

0_1969-11-22

0_1970-05-20

0_1970-05-23

0_1971-04-14

0_1971-05-26

0_1971-09-22

0_1971-12-15

0_1972-07-22

02.01_-_Metaphysical_Thought_and_the_Supreme_Truth

02.01_-_The_World_War

02.02_-_The_Kingdom_of_Subtle_Matter

02.02_-_The_Message_of_the_Atomic_Bomb

02.03_-_The_Glory_and_the_Fall_of_Life

02.05_-_Robert_Graves

02.07_-_The_Descent_into_Night

02.08_-_The_World_of_Falsehood,_the_Mother_of_Evil_and_the_Sons_of_Darkness

02.09_-_The_Paradise_of_the_Life-Gods

02.10_-_Independence_and_its_Sanction

02.11_-_New_World-Conditions

02.11_-_The_Kingdoms_and_Godheads_of_the_Greater_Mind

02.12_-_The_Ideals_of_Human_Unity

02.13_-_On_Social_Reconstruction

03.01_-_The_Malady_of_the_Century

03.02_-_Yogic_Initiation_and_Aptitude

03.06_-_The_Pact_and_its_Sanction

03.10_-_Hamlet:_A_Crisis_of_the_Evolving_Soul

04.02_-_Human_Progress

04.02_-_The_Growth_of_the_Flame

04.03_-_The_Call_to_the_Quest

04.04_-_The_Quest

04.05_-_The_Immortal_Nation

04.39_-_To_the_Heights-XXXIX

05.02_-_Satyavan

05.03_-_Satyavan_and_Savitri

05.06_-_Physics_or_philosophy

05.09_-_The_Changed_Scientific_Outlook

06.01_-_The_Word_of_Fate

06.02_-_The_Way_of_Fate_and_the_Problem_of_Pain

07.01_-_The_Joy_of_Union;_the_Ordeal_of_the_Foreknowledge

07.03_-_The_Entry_into_the_Inner_Countries

09.02_-_The_Journey_in_Eternal_Night_and_the_Voice_of_the_Darkness

100.00_-_Synergy

10.02_-_The_Gospel_of_Death_and_Vanity_of_the_Ideal

1.00a_-_DIVISION_A_-_THE_INTERNAL_FIRES_OF_THE_SHEATHS.

1.00b_-_Introduction

1.00_-_Introduction_to_Alchemy_of_Happiness

1.00_-_Main

1.00_-_Preliminary_Remarks

1.00_-_The_way_of_what_is_to_come

1.01_-_An_Accomplished_Westerner

1.01_-_A_NOTE_ON_PROGRESS

1.01_-_Archetypes_of_the_Collective_Unconscious

1.01_-_BOOK_THE_FIRST

1.01_-_Economy

1.01_-_Historical_Survey

1.01_-_How_is_Knowledge_Of_The_Higher_Worlds_Attained?

1.01_-_MASTER_AND_DISCIPLE

1.01_-_Meeting_the_Master_-_Authors_first_meeting,_December_1918

1.01_-_NIGHT

1.01_-_On_knowledge_of_the_soul,_and_how_knowledge_of_the_soul_is_the_key_to_the_knowledge_of_God.

1.01_-_On_renunciation_of_the_world

1.01_-_the_Call_to_Adventure

1.01_-_The_Corporeal_Being_of_Man

1.01_-_To_Watanabe_Sukefusa

1.02_-_BEFORE_THE_CITY-GATE

1.02_-_BOOK_THE_SECOND

1.02_-_Education

1.02_-_IN_THE_COMPANY_OF_DEVOTEES

1.02_-_MAPS_OF_MEANING_-_THREE_LEVELS_OF_ANALYSIS

1.02_-_On_the_Knowledge_of_God.

1.02_-_On_the_Service_of_the_Soul

1.02_-_Priestly_Kings

1.02_-_THE_NATURE_OF_THE_GROUND

1.02_-_The_Pit

1.02_-_The_Recovery

1.02_-_The_Refusal_of_the_Call

10.35_-_The_Moral_and_the_Spiritual

1.03_-_A_Parable

1.03_-_APPRENTICESHIP_AND_ENCULTURATION_-_ADOPTION_OF_A_SHARED_MAP

1.03_-_BOOK_THE_THIRD

1.03_-_Meeting_the_Master_-_Meeting_with_others

1.03_-_Reading

1.03_-_.REASON._IN_PHILOSOPHY

1.03_-_Some_Practical_Aspects

1.03_-_Spiritual_Realisation,_The_aim_of_Bhakti-Yoga

1.03_-_Sympathetic_Magic

1.03_-_To_Layman_Ishii

1.04_-_ADVICE_TO_HOUSEHOLDERS

1.04_-_A_Leader

1.04_-_BOOK_THE_FOURTH

1.04_-_On_blessed_and_ever-memorable_obedience

1.04_-_On_Knowledge_of_the_Future_World.

1.04_-_The_Divine_Mother_-_This_Is_She

1.04_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda

1.04_-_The_Self

1.05_-_Adam_Kadmon

1.05_-_BOOK_THE_FIFTH

1.05_-_Buddhism_and_Women

1.05_-_On_the_Love_of_God.

1.05_-_Prayer

1.05_-_THE_HOSTILE_BROTHERS_-_ARCHETYPES_OF_RESPONSE_TO_THE_UNKNOWN

1.05_-_The_Magical_Control_of_the_Weather

1.05_-_THE_MASTER_AND_KESHAB

1.06_-_Agni_and_the_Truth

1.06_-_BOOK_THE_SIXTH

1.06_-_Dhyana

1.06_-_Magicians_as_Kings

1.06_-_MORTIFICATION,_NON-ATTACHMENT,_RIGHT_LIVELIHOOD

1.06_-_Psychic_Education

1.06_-_The_Ascent_of_the_Sacrifice_2_The_Works_of_Love_-_The_Works_of_Life

1.06_-_THE_FOUR_GREAT_ERRORS

1.06_-_The_Four_Powers_of_the_Mother

1.06_-_The_Three_Schools_of_Magick_1

1.07_-_A_Song_of_Longing_for_Tara,_the_Infallible

1.07_-_BOOK_THE_SEVENTH

1.07_-_Incarnate_Human_Gods

1.07_-_Raja-Yoga_in_Brief

1.07_-_Standards_of_Conduct_and_Spiritual_Freedom

1.07_-_THE_GREAT_EVENT_FORESHADOWED_-_THE_PLANETIZATION_OF_MANKIND

1.07_-_The_Literal_Qabalah_(continued)

1.07_-_THE_MASTER_AND_VIJAY_GOSWAMI

1.07_-_The_Three_Schools_of_Magick_2

1.08a_-_The_Ladder

1.08_-_Attendants

1.08_-_BOOK_THE_EIGHTH

1.08_-_Civilisation_and_Barbarism

1.08_-_EVENING_A_SMALL,_NEATLY_KEPT_CHAMBER

1.08_-_Information,_Language,_and_Society

1.08_-_Stead_and_the_Spirits

1.08_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda

1.08_-_THE_MASTERS_BIRTHDAY_CELEBRATION_AT_DAKSHINESWAR

1.09_-_BOOK_THE_NINTH

1.09_-_Civilisation_and_Culture

1.09_-_FAITH_IN_PEACE

1.09_-_SKIRMISHES_IN_A_WAY_WITH_THE_AGE

1.09_-_Talks

1.09_-_The_Guardian_of_the_Threshold

1.10_-_BOOK_THE_TENTH

1.10_-_ON_WAR_AND_WARRIORS

1.10_-_Relics_of_Tree_Worship_in_Modern_Europe

1.10_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda

1.10_-_THINGS_I_OWE_TO_THE_ANCIENTS

1.11_-_Higher_Laws

1.11_-_Legend_of_Dhruva,_the_son_of_Uttanapada

1.11_-_The_Influence_of_the_Sexes_on_Vegetation

1.11_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_AT_DAKSHINEWAR

1.11_-_Woolly_Pomposities_of_the_Pious_Teacher

1.12_-_BOOK_THE_TWELFTH

1.1.2_-_Commentary

1.12_-_Dhruva_commences_a_course_of_religious_austerities

1.12_-_GARDEN

1.12_-_God_Departs

1.12_-_The_Sacred_Marriage

1.12_-_The_Sociology_of_Superman

1.13_-_BOOK_THE_THIRTEENTH

1.13_-_(Plot_continued.)_What_constitutes_Tragic_Action.

1.13_-_THE_MASTER_AND_M.

1.14_-_Bibliography

1.14_-_FOREST_AND_CAVERN

1.14_-_INSTRUCTION_TO_VAISHNAVS_AND_BRHMOS

1.14_-_The_Structure_and_Dynamics_of_the_Self

1.14_-_The_Succesion_to_the_Kingdom_in_Ancient_Latium

1.15_-_In_the_Domain_of_the_Spirit_Beings

1.15_-_The_Transformed_Being

1.15_-_The_world_overrun_with_trees;_they_are_destroyed_by_the_Pracetasas

1.15_-_The_Worship_of_the_Oak

1.16_-_Advantages_and_Disadvantages_of_Evocational_Magic

1.16_-_Dianus_and_Diana

1.16_-_Guidoguerra,_Aldobrandi,_and_Rusticucci._Cataract_of_the_River_of_Blood.

1.16_-_PRAYER

1.16_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_AT_DAKSHINESWAR

1.17_-_M._AT_DAKSHINEWAR

1.17_-_The_Burden_of_Royalty

1.18_-_Evocation

1.18_-_The_Perils_of_the_Soul

1.19_-_Dialogue_between_Prahlada_and_his_father

1.19_-_Tabooed_Acts

1.2.07_-_Surrender

1.20_-_Tabooed_Persons

1.21_-_A_DAY_AT_DAKSHINESWAR

1.21_-_Tabooed_Things

1.21_-_WALPURGIS-NIGHT

1.22_-_EMOTIONALISM

1.22_-_OBERON_AND_TITANIA's_GOLDEN_WEDDING

1.22_-_Tabooed_Words

1.240_-_Talks_2

1.24_-_On_meekness,_simplicity,_guilelessness_which_come_not_from_nature_but_from_habit,_and_about_malice.

1.24_-_The_Killing_of_the_Divine_King

1.25_-_ADVICE_TO_PUNDIT_SHASHADHAR

1.26_-_FESTIVAL_AT_ADHARS_HOUSE

1.26_-_Sacrifice_of_the_Kings_Son

1.27_-_Describes_the_great_love_shown_us_by_the_Lord_in_the_first_words_of_the_Paternoster_and_the_great_importance_of_our_making_no_account_of_good_birth_if_we_truly_desire_to_be_the_daughters_of_God.

1.27_-_On_holy_solitude_of_body_and_soul.

1.28_-_Need_to_Define_God,_Self,_etc.

1.28_-_On_holy_and_blessed_prayer,_mother_of_virtues,_and_on_the_attitude_of_mind_and_body_in_prayer.

1.28_-_The_Killing_of_the_Tree-Spirit

1.29_-_What_is_Certainty?

1.300_-_1.400_Talks

1.30_-_Adonis_in_Syria

1.31_-_Adonis_in_Cyprus

1.33_-_The_Gardens_of_Adonis

1.36_-_Treats_of_these_words_in_the_Paternoster__Dimitte_nobis_debita_nostra.

1.37_-_Describes_the_excellence_of_this_prayer_called_the_Paternoster,_and_the_many_ways_in_which_we_shall_find_consolation_in_it.

1.37_-_Oriential_Religions_in_the_West

1.39_-_Prophecy

1.400_-_1.450_Talks

1.4.2.02_-_The_English_Bible

1.42_-_Osiris_and_the_Sun

1.439

1.450_-_1.500_Talks

1.45_-_The_Corn-Mother_and_the_Corn-Maiden_in_Northern_Europe

1.46_-_The_Corn-Mother_in_Many_Lands

1.49_-_Ancient_Deities_of_Vegetation_as_Animals

1.50_-_Eating_the_God

1.51_-_Homeopathic_Magic_of_a_Flesh_Diet

1.52_-_Killing_the_Divine_Animal

1.550_-_1.600_Talks

1.58_-_Do_Angels_Ever_Cut_Themselves_Shaving?

1.58_-_Human_Scapegoats_in_Classical_Antiquity

1.60_-_Between_Heaven_and_Earth

1.61_-_Power_and_Authority

1.62_-_The_Fire-Festivals_of_Europe

1.67_-_Faith

1.67_-_The_External_Soul_in_Folk-Custom

1.72_-_Education

1.74_-_Obstacles_on_the_Path

1.75_-_The_AA_and_the_Planet

1.78_-_Sore_Spots

1929-07-28_-_Art_and_Yoga_-_Art_and_life_-_Music,_dance_-_World_of_Harmony

1951-01-08_-_True_vision_and_understanding_of_the_world._Progress,_equilibrium._Inner_reality_-_the_psychic._Animals_and_the_psychic.

1951-02-08_-_Unifying_the_being_-_ideas_of_good_and_bad_-_Miracles_-_determinism_-_Supreme_Will_-_Distinguishing_the_voice_of_the_Divine

1951-02-12_-_Divine_force_-_Signs_indicating_readiness_-_Weakness_in_mind,_vital_-_concentration_-_Divine_perception,_human_notion_of_good,_bad_-_Conversion,_consecration_-_progress_-_Signs_of_entering_the_path_-_kinds_of_meditation_-_aspiration

1951-03-14_-_Plasticity_-_Conditions_for_knowing_the_Divine_Will_-_Illness_-_microbes_-_Fear_-_body-reflexes_-_The_best_possible_happens_-_Theories_of_Creation_-_True_knowledge_-_a_work_to_do_-_the_Ashram

1953-07-22

1953-08-12

1954-03-24_-_Dreams_and_the_condition_of_the_stomach_-_Tobacco_and_alcohol_-_Nervousness_-_The_centres_and_the_Kundalini_-_Control_of_the_senses

1954-08-11_-_Division_and_creation_-_The_gods_and_human_formations_-_People_carry_their_desires_around_them

1954-10-20_-_Stand_back_-_Asking_questions_to_Mother_-_Seeing_images_in_meditation_-_Berlioz_-Music_-_Mothers_organ_music_-_Destiny

1956-07-18_-_Unlived_dreams_-_Radha-consciousness_-_Separation_and_identification_-_Ananda_of_identity_and_Ananda_of_union_-_Sincerity,_meditation_and_prayer_-_Enemies_of_the_Divine_-_The_universe_is_progressive

1957-01-30_-_Artistry_is_just_contrast_-_How_to_perceive_the_Divine_Guidance?

1957-05-08_-_Vital_excitement,_reason,_instinct

1958-05-21_-_Mental_honesty

1958_10_10

1960_02_17

1960_11_11?_-_48

1970_05_15

1.A_-_ANTHROPOLOGY,_THE_SOUL

1.anon_-_Enuma_Elish_(When_on_high)

1.anon_-_Others_have_told_me

1.anon_-_The_Epic_of_Gilgamesh_Tablet_II

1.anon_-_The_Poem_of_Antar

1f.lovecraft_-_Ashes

1f.lovecraft_-_At_the_Mountains_of_Madness

1f.lovecraft_-_Collapsing_Cosmoses

1f.lovecraft_-_He

1f.lovecraft_-_Herbert_West-Reanimator

1f.lovecraft_-_Ibid

1f.lovecraft_-_In_the_Walls_of_Eryx

1f.lovecraft_-_Medusas_Coil

1f.lovecraft_-_Memory

1f.lovecraft_-_Old_Bugs

1f.lovecraft_-_Out_of_the_Aeons

1f.lovecraft_-_Pickmans_Model

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Alchemist

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Battle_that_Ended_the_Century

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Challenge_from_Beyond

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Colour_out_of_Space

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Crawling_Chaos

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Curse_of_Yig

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dream-Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dreams_in_the_Witch_House

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dunwich_Horror

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Ghost-Eater

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Green_Meadow

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Horror_in_the_Museum

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Last_Test

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Loved_Dead

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Man_of_Stone

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Mound

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Nameless_City

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Picture_in_the_House

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_out_of_Time

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shunned_House

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Street

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Temple

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Tomb

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Tree_on_the_Hill

1f.lovecraft_-_The_Whisperer_in_Darkness

1f.lovecraft_-_Under_the_Pyramids

1.fs_-_Breadth_And_Depth

1.fs_-_Count_Eberhard,_The_Groaner_Of_Wurtembert._A_War_Song

1.fs_-_Elegy_On_The_Death_Of_A_Young_Man

1.fs_-_Elysium

1.fs_-_The_Antiques_At_Paris

1.fs_-_The_Artists

1.fs_-_The_Assignation

1.fs_-_The_Battle

1.fs_-_The_Celebrated_Woman_-_An_Epistle_By_A_Married_Man

1.fs_-_The_Dance

1.fs_-_The_Driver

1.hs_-_And_if,_my_friend,_you_ask_me_the_way

1.hs_-_O_Cup_Bearer

1.jk_-_Character_Of_Charles_Brown

1.jk_-_Endymion_-_Book_I

1.jk_-_Endymion_-_Book_III

1.jk_-_Hyperion,_A_Vision_-_Attempted_Reconstruction_Of_The_Poem

1.jk_-_Hyperion._Book_III

1.jk_-_Lamia._Part_I

1.jk_-_Lamia._Part_II

1.jk_-_Lines_To_Fanny

1.jk_-_Otho_The_Great_-_Act_I

1.jk_-_Otho_The_Great_-_Act_II

1.jk_-_Spenserian_Stanzas_On_Charles_Armitage_Brown

1.jk_-_Written_In_The_Cottage_Where_Burns_Was_Born

1.jlb_-_The_Cyclical_Night

1.jlb_-_Unknown_Street

1.jr_-_Ah,_what_was_there_in_that_light-giving_candle_that_it_set_fire_to_the_heart,_and_snatched_the_heart_away?

1.jr_-_Any_Soul_That_Drank_The_Nectar

1.jr_-_Two_Kinds_Of_Intelligence

1.jr_-_Weary_Not_Of_Us,_For_We_Are_Very_Beautiful

1.jwvg_-_True_Enjoyment

1.jwvg_-_Wont_And_Done

1.lb_-_Chuang_Tzu_And_The_Butterfly

1.lb_-_Confessional

1.lb_-_Exile's_Letter

1.lb_-_Lament_of_the_Frontier_Guard

1.lb_-_Lament_On_an_Autumn_Night

1.lb_-_Leave-Taking_Near_Shoku

1.lb_-_Mng_Hao-jan

1.lb_-_Mountain_Drinking_Song

1.lb_-_Old_Poem

1.lb_-_Poem_by_The_Bridge_at_Ten-Shin

1.lb_-_South-Folk_in_Cold_Country

1.lb_-_Taking_Leave_of_a_Friend_by_Li_Po_Tr._by_Ezra_Pound

1.lb_-_The_City_of_Choan

1.lb_-_The_River_Song

1.lovecraft_-_Fungi_From_Yuggoth

1.lovecraft_-_Pacifist_War_Song_-_1917

1.lovecraft_-_Psychopompos-_A_Tale_in_Rhyme

1.lovecraft_-_Revelation

1.lovecraft_-_The_House

1.lovecraft_-_The_Poe-ets_Nightmare

1.mb_-_The_Music

1.mm_-_Then_shall_I_leap_into_love

1.nmdv_-_Laughing_and_playing,_I_came_to_Your_Temple,_O_Lord

1.okym_-_17_-_They_say_the_Lion_and_the_Lizard_keep

1.okym_-_62_-_Another_said_--_Why,_neer_a_peevish_Boy

1.pbs_-_Adonais_-_An_elegy_on_the_Death_of_John_Keats

1.pbs_-_Alastor_-_or,_the_Spirit_of_Solitude

1.pbs_-_A_Vision_Of_The_Sea

1.pbs_-_Epipsychidion

1.pbs_-_Ghasta_Or,_The_Avenging_Demon!!!

1.pbs_-_Hellas_-_A_Lyrical_Drama

1.pbs_-_Marenghi

1.pbs_-_Oedipus_Tyrannus_or_Swellfoot_The_Tyrant

1.pbs_-_Peter_Bell_The_Third

1.pbs_-_Prince_Athanase

1.pbs_-_Prometheus_Unbound

1.pbs_-_Queen_Mab_-_Part_I.

1.pbs_-_Queen_Mab_-_Part_III.

1.pbs_-_Queen_Mab_-_Part_VIII.

1.pbs_-_Revenge

1.pbs_-_Rosalind_and_Helen_-_a_Modern_Eclogue

1.pbs_-_Song._Sorrow

1.pbs_-_Stanzas._--_April,_1814

1.pbs_-_The_Cenci_-_A_Tragedy_In_Five_Acts

1.pbs_-_The_Cyclops

1.pbs_-_The_Daemon_Of_The_World

1.pbs_-_The_Devils_Walk._A_Ballad

1.pbs_-_The_Question

1.pbs_-_The_Revolt_Of_Islam_-_Canto_I-XII

1.pbs_-_The_Sensitive_Plant

1.pbs_-_The_Witch_Of_Atlas

1.pbs_-_To_The_Moonbeam

1.poe_-_Eureka_-_A_Prose_Poem

1.rb_-_Andrea_del_Sarto

1.rb_-_An_Epistle_Containing_the_Strange_Medical_Experience_of_Kar

1.rb_-_Any_Wife_To_Any_Husband

1.rb_-_Bishop_Blougram's_Apology

1.rb_-_Caliban_upon_Setebos_or,_Natural_Theology_in_the_Island

1.rb_-_Childe_Roland_To_The_Dark_Tower_Came

1.rb_-_Evelyn_Hope

1.rb_-_Introduction:_Pippa_Passes

1.rb_-_Master_Hugues_Of_Saxe-Gotha

1.rb_-_My_Last_Duchess

1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_III_-_Paracelsus

1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_I_-_Paracelsus_Aspires

1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_IV_-_Paracelsus_Aspires

1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_V_-_Paracelsus_Attains

1.rb_-_Pauline,_A_Fragment_of_a_Question

1.rb_-_Pippa_Passes_-_Part_IV_-_Night

1.rb_-_Sordello_-_Book_the_First

1.rb_-_Sordello_-_Book_the_Fourth

1.rb_-_Sordello_-_Book_the_Second

1.rb_-_Sordello_-_Book_the_Sixth

1.rb_-_Sordello_-_Book_the_Third

1.rb_-_The_Flight_Of_The_Duchess

1.rmr_-_World_Was_In_The_Face_Of_The_Beloved

1.rt_-_The_Gardener_XLII_-_O_Mad,_Superbly_Drunk

1.rwe_-_Alphonso_Of_Castile

1.rwe_-_Astrae

1.rwe_-_In_Memoriam

1.rwe_-_May-Day

1.rwe_-_Monadnoc

1.rwe_-_My_Garden

1.rwe_-_Ode_To_Beauty

1.rwe_-_The_Adirondacs

1.rwe_-_The_Romany_Girl

1.rwe_-_Voluntaries

1.sjc_-_Dark_Night

1.tr_-_To_My_Teacher

1.wby_-_Among_School_Children

1.wby_-_Cuchulains_Fight_With_The_Sea

1.wby_-_The_Dedication_To_A_Book_Of_Stories_Selected_From_The_Irish_Novelists

1.wby_-_The_Hour_Before_Dawn

1.wby_-_The_Lover_Speaks_To_The_Hearers_Of_His_Songs_In_Coming_Days

1.wby_-_The_Madness_Of_King_Goll

1.wby_-_The_Seven_Sages

1.wby_-_The_Statesmans_Holiday

1.wby_-_The_Wanderings_Of_Oisin_-_Book_I

1.wby_-_The_Wanderings_Of_Oisin_-_Book_II

1.wby_-_Two_Songs_Of_A_Fool

1.wby_-_Two_Songs_Rewritten_For_The_Tunes_Sake

1.wby_-_Upon_A_Dying_Lady

1.whitman_-_A_Broadway_Pageant

1.whitman_-_A_Carol_Of_Harvest_For_1867

1.whitman_-_A_March_In_The_Ranks,_Hard-prest

1.whitman_-_An_Army_Corps_On_The_March

1.whitman_-_Ashes_Of_Soldiers

1.whitman_-_As_I_Sat_Alone_By_Blue_Ontarios_Shores

1.whitman_-_Camps_Of_Green

1.whitman_-_Dirge_For_Two_Veterans

1.whitman_-_Drum-Taps

1.whitman_-_Give_Me_The_Splendid,_Silent_Sun

1.whitman_-_How_Solemn_As_One_By_One

1.whitman_-_I_Saw_Old_General_At_Bay

1.whitman_-_I_Sing_The_Body_Electric

1.whitman_-_I_Sit_And_Look_Out

1.whitman_-_Native_Moments

1.whitman_-_Pioneers!_O_Pioneers!

1.whitman_-_Salut_Au_Monde

1.whitman_-_Song_of_Myself

1.whitman_-_Song_Of_Myself-_XVI

1.whitman_-_Song_Of_Myself-_XXIV

1.whitman_-_Spirit_Whose_Work_Is_Done

1.whitman_-_The_Centerarians_Story

1.whitman_-_The_Indications

1.whitman_-_The_Mystic_Trumpeter

1.whitman_-_To_Oratists

1.whitman_-_To_Think_Of_Time

1.ww_-_24_-_Walt_Whitman,_a_cosmos,_of_Manhattan_the_son

1.ww_-_Artegal_And_Elidure

1.ww_-_A_Whirl-Blast_From_Behind_The_Hill

1.ww_-_Book_Ninth_[Residence_in_France]

1.ww_-_Book_Seventh_[Residence_in_London]

1.ww_-_Book_Sixth_[Cambridge_and_the_Alps]

1.ww_-_Book_Tenth_{Residence_in_France_continued]

1.ww_-_Book_Third_[Residence_at_Cambridge]

1.ww_-_Epitaphs_Translated_From_Chiabrera

1.ww_-_Hart-Leap_Well

1.ww_-_How_Sweet_It_Is,_When_Mother_Fancy_Rocks

1.ww_-_In_The_Pass_Of_Killicranky

1.ww_-_Matthew

1.ww_-_Oerweening_Statesmen_Have_Full_Long_Relied

1.ww_-_Personal_Talk

1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_II-_Book_First-_The_Wanderer

1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_IV-_Book_Third-_Despondency

1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_V-_Book_Fouth-_Despondency_Corrected

1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_VII-_Book_Sixth-_The_Churchyard_Among_the_Mountains

1.ww_-_To_Sir_George_Howland_Beaumont,_Bart_From_the_South-West_Coast_Or_Cumberland_1811

20.01_-_Charyapada_-_Old_Bengali_Mystic_Poems

2.00_-_BIBLIOGRAPHY

2.01_-_Habit_1__Be_Proactive

2.01_-_Mandala_One

2.01_-_On_Books

2.01_-_Proem

2.02_-_Habit_2__Begin_with_the_End_in_Mind

2.02_-_THE_DURGA_PUJA_FESTIVAL

2.02_-_THE_EXPANSION_OF_LIFE

2.02_-_The_Ishavasyopanishad_with_a_commentary_in_English

2.03_-_Karmayogin__A_Commentary_on_the_Isha_Upanishad

2.04_-_ADVICE_TO_ISHAN

2.04_-_Positive_Aspects_of_the_Mother-Complex

2.05_-_The_Cosmic_Illusion;_Mind,_Dream_and_Hallucination

2.05_-_The_Tale_of_the_Vampires_Kingdom

2.06_-_The_Wand

2.06_-_WITH_VARIOUS_DEVOTEES

2.06_-_Works_Devotion_and_Knowledge

2.07_-_The_Mother__Relations_with_Others

2.08_-_ON_THE_FAMOUS_WISE_MEN

2.09_-_THE_MASTERS_BIRTHDAY

2.0_-_THE_ANTICHRIST

2.1.03_-_Man_and_Superman

2.10_-_The_Vision_of_the_World-Spirit_-_Time_the_Destroyer

2.11_-_On_Education

2.11_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_IN_CALCUTTA

2.12_-_THE_MASTERS_REMINISCENCES

2.14_-_AT_RAMS_HOUSE

2.1.4_-_The_Lower_Vital_Being

2.14_-_The_Origin_and_Remedy_of_Falsehood,_Error,_Wrong_and_Evil

2.1.5.1_-_Study_of_Works_of_Sri_Aurobindo_and_the_Mother

2.17_-_December_1938

2.17_-_THE_MASTER_ON_HIMSELF_AND_HIS_EXPERIENCES

2.18_-_January_1939

2.18_-_SRI_RAMAKRISHNA_AT_SYAMPUKUR

2.19_-_THE_MASTER_AND_DR._SARKAR

2.2.1.01_-_The_World's_Greatest_Poets

2.2.3_-_Depression_and_Despondency

2.3.02_-_Opening,_Sincerity_and_the_Mother's_Grace

2.3.04_-_The_Mother's_Force

24.05_-_Vision_of_Dante

2.4.1_-_Human_Relations_and_the_Spiritual_Life

2_-_Other_Hymns_to_Agni

30.02_-_Greek_Drama

3.00_-_The_Magical_Theory_of_the_Universe

30.14_-_Rabindranath_and_Modernism

3.02_-_Nature_And_Composition_Of_The_Mind

3.02_-_The_Great_Secret

3.02_-_The_Psychology_of_Rebirth

3.03_-_ON_INVOLUNTARY_BLISS

3.04_-_BEFORE_SUNRISE

3.04_-_LUNA

3.05_-_SAL

3.05_-_The_Conjunction

3.05_-_The_Fool

3.05_-_The_Formula_of_I.A.O.

3.06_-_UPON_THE_MOUNT_OF_OLIVES

3.08_-_ON_APOSTATES

3.09_-_Of_Silence_and_Secrecy

3.09_-_THE_RETURN_HOME

3.1.02_-_A_Theory_of_the_Human_Being

3.1.05_-_A_Vision_of_Science

3.12_-_Of_the_Bloody_Sacrifice

3.12_-_ON_OLD_AND_NEW_TABLETS

3.14_-_Of_the_Consecrations

3.15_-_THE_OTHER_DANCING_SONG

3.16.1_-_Of_the_Oath

3.16_-_THE_SEVEN_SEALS_OR_THE_YES_AND_AMEN_SONG

3.18_-_Of_Clairvoyance_and_the_Body_of_Light

32.03_-_In_This_Crisis

3.2.05_-_Our_Ideal

3.20_-_Of_the_Eucharist

3.21_-_Of_Black_Magic

3.2.4_-_Sex

3.3.01_-_The_Superman

33.03_-_Muraripukur_-_I

33.05_-_Muraripukur_-_II

33.07_-_Alipore_Jail

33.10_-_Pondicherry_I

33.11_-_Pondicherry_II

33.12_-_Pondicherry_Cyclone

33.17_-_Two_Great_Wars

3.3.2_-_Doctors_and_Medicines

3.4.03_-_Materialism

3-5_Full_Circle

3.7.1.10_-_Karma,_Will_and_Consequence

38.02_-_Hymns_and_Prayers

3_-_Commentaries_and_Annotated_Translations

4.01_-_Introduction

4.01_-_THE_COLLECTIVE_ISSUE

4.02_-_BEYOND_THE_COLLECTIVE_-_THE_HYPER-PERSONAL

4.02_-_Humanity_in_Progress

4.03_-_Mistakes

4.03_-_THE_TRANSFORMATION_OF_THE_KING

4.04_-_Conclusion

4.04_-_THE_REGENERATION_OF_THE_KING

4.04_-_Weaknesses

4.09_-_REGINA

4.0_-_NOTES_TO_ZARATHUSTRA

4.1.01_-_The_Intellect_and_Yoga

4.11_-_THE_WELCOME

4.14_-_THE_SONG_OF_MELANCHOLY

4.16_-_AMONG_DAUGHTERS_OF_THE_WILDERNESS

4.17_-_THE_AWAKENING

4.18_-_THE_ASS_FESTIVAL

4.19_-_THE_DRUNKEN_SONG

4.1_-_Jnana

4.3_-_Bhakti

5.01_-_Proem

5.01_-_The_Dakini,_Salgye_Du_Dalma

5.06_-_Origins_And_Savage_Period_Of_Mankind

5.06_-_THE_TRANSFORMATION

5.07_-_Beginnings_Of_Civilization

5.1.01.1_-_The_Book_of_the_Herald

5.1.01.2_-_The_Book_of_the_Statesman

5.1.01.3_-_The_Book_of_the_Assembly

5.1.01.4_-_The_Book_of_Partings

5.1.01.5_-_The_Book_of_Achilles

5.1.01.7_-_The_Book_of_the_Woman

5.1.01.8_-_The_Book_of_the_Gods

5.1.01.9_-_Book_IX

5.1.02_-_Ahana

5.2.01_-_The_Descent_of_Ahana

5_-_The_Phenomenology_of_the_Spirit_in_Fairytales

6.02_-_STAGES_OF_THE_CONJUNCTION

6.0_-_Conscious,_Unconscious,_and_Individuation

7.02_-_Courage

7.08_-_Sincerity

7.11_-_Building_and_Destroying

7.15_-_The_Family

7.16_-_Sympathy

7.3.14_-_The_Tiger_and_the_Deer

Aeneid

Big_Mind_(non-dual)

Blazing_P3_-_Explore_the_Stages_of_Postconventional_Consciousness

Book_1_-_The_Council_of_the_Gods

BOOK_I._-_Augustine_censures_the_pagans,_who_attributed_the_calamities_of_the_world,_and_especially_the_sack_of_Rome_by_the_Goths,_to_the_Christian_religion_and_its_prohibition_of_the_worship_of_the_gods

BOOK_II._-_A_review_of_the_calamities_suffered_by_the_Romans_before_the_time_of_Christ,_showing_that_their_gods_had_plunged_them_into_corruption_and_vice

BOOK_III._-_The_external_calamities_of_Rome

BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS.

BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED

BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS

BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION

BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED

BOOK_I._--_PART_II._THE_EVOLUTION_OF_SYMBOLISM_IN_ITS_APPROXIMATE_ORDER

BOOK_IX._-_Of_those_who_allege_a_distinction_among_demons,_some_being_good_and_others_evil

Book_of_Exodus

Book_of_Genesis

Book_of_Imaginary_Beings_(text)

BOOK_VIII._-_Some_account_of_the_Socratic_and_Platonic_philosophy,_and_a_refutation_of_the_doctrine_of_Apuleius_that_the_demons_should_be_worshipped_as_mediators_between_gods_and_men

BOOK_XI._-_Augustine_passes_to_the_second_part_of_the_work,_in_which_the_origin,_progress,_and_destinies_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_are_discussed.Speculations_regarding_the_creation_of_the_world

BOOK_XIII._-_That_death_is_penal,_and_had_its_origin_in_Adam's_sin

BOOK_XII._-_Of_the_creation_of_angels_and_men,_and_of_the_origin_of_evil

BOOK_XIX._-_A_review_of_the_philosophical_opinions_regarding_the_Supreme_Good,_and_a_comparison_of_these_opinions_with_the_Christian_belief_regarding_happiness

BOOK_X._-_Porphyrys_doctrine_of_redemption

BOOK_XV._-_The_progress_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_traced_by_the_sacred_history

BOOK_XXII._-_Of_the_eternal_happiness_of_the_saints,_the_resurrection_of_the_body,_and_the_miracles_of_the_early_Church

BOOK_XXI._-_Of_the_eternal_punishment_of_the_wicked_in_hell,_and_of_the_various_objections_urged_against_it

BOOK_XX._-_Of_the_last_judgment,_and_the_declarations_regarding_it_in_the_Old_and_New_Testaments

Chapter_III_-_WHEREIN_IS_RELATED_THE_DROLL_WAY_IN_WHICH_DON_QUIXOTE_HAD_HIMSELF_DUBBED_A_KNIGHT

COSA_-_BOOK_II

COSA_-_BOOK_IX

COSA_-_BOOK_VI

COSA_-_BOOK_VIII

COSA_-_BOOK_XIII

ENNEAD_01.01_-_The_Organism_and_the_Self.

ENNEAD_01.03_-_Of_Dialectic,_or_the_Means_of_Raising_the_Soul_to_the_Intelligible_World.

ENNEAD_01.04_-_Whether_Animals_May_Be_Termed_Happy.

ENNEAD_01.06_-_Of_Beauty.

ENNEAD_01.08_-_Of_the_Nature_and_Origin_of_Evils.

ENNEAD_01.09a_-_Of_Suicide.

ENNEAD_02.03_-_Whether_Astrology_is_of_any_Value.

ENNEAD_02.04a_-_Of_Matter.

ENNEAD_02.09_-_Against_the_Gnostics;_or,_That_the_Creator_and_the_World_are_Not_Evil.

ENNEAD_03.02_-_Of_Providence.

ENNEAD_03.03_-_Continuation_of_That_on_Providence.

ENNEAD_03.04_-_Of_Our_Individual_Guardian.

ENNEAD_03.05_-_Of_Love,_or_Eros.

ENNEAD_03.06_-_Of_the_Impassibility_of_Incorporeal_Entities_(Soul_and_and_Matter).

ENNEAD_03.07_-_Of_Time_and_Eternity.

ENNEAD_03.08b_-_Of_Nature,_Contemplation_and_Unity.

ENNEAD_03.09_-_Fragments_About_the_Soul,_the_Intelligence,_and_the_Good.

ENNEAD_04.02_-_How_the_Soul_Mediates_Between_Indivisible_and_Divisible_Essence.

ENNEAD_04.03_-_Problems_About_the_Soul.

ENNEAD_04.03_-_Psychological_Questions.

ENNEAD_04.04_-_Questions_About_the_Soul.

ENNEAD_04.07_-_Of_the_Immortality_of_the_Soul:_Polemic_Against_Materialism.

ENNEAD_04.08_-_Of_the_Descent_of_the_Soul_Into_the_Body.

ENNEAD_05.01_-_The_Three_Principal_Hypostases,_or_Forms_of_Existence.

ENNEAD_05.02_-_Of_Generation_and_of_the_Order_of_Things_that_Follow_the_First.

ENNEAD_05.02_-_Of_Generation,_and_of_the_Order_of_things_that_Rank_Next_After_the_First.

ENNEAD_05.03_-_The_Self-Consciousnesses,_and_What_is_Above_Them.

ENNEAD_05.04_-_How_What_is_After_the_First_Proceeds_Therefrom;_of_the_One.

ENNEAD_05.05_-_That_Intelligible_Entities_Are_Not_External_to_the_Intelligence_of_the_Good.

ENNEAD_05.06_-_The_Superessential_Principle_Does_Not_Think_-_Which_is_the_First_Thinking_Principle,_and_Which_is_the_Second?

ENNEAD_05.08_-_Concerning_Intelligible_Beauty.

ENNEAD_05.09_-_Of_Intelligence,_Ideas_and_Essence.

ENNEAD_06.01_-_Of_the_Ten_Aristotelian_and_Four_Stoic_Categories.

ENNEAD_06.02_-_The_Categories_of_Plotinos.

ENNEAD_06.03_-_Plotinos_Own_Sense-Categories.

ENNEAD_06.05_-_The_One_and_Identical_Being_is_Everywhere_Present_In_Its_Entirety.345

ENNEAD_06.05_-_The_One_Identical_Essence_is_Everywhere_Entirely_Present.

ENNEAD_06.06_-_Of_Numbers.

ENNEAD_06.07_-_How_Ideas_Multiplied,_and_the_Good.

ENNEAD_06.08_-_Of_the_Will_of_the_One.

ENNEAD_06.09_-_Of_the_Good_and_the_One.

Euthyphro

Gorgias

Ion

Liber_46_-_The_Key_of_the_Mysteries

Liber_71_-_The_Voice_of_the_Silence_-_The_Two_Paths_-_The_Seven_Portals

MoM_References

Phaedo

Prayers_and_Meditations_by_Baha_u_llah_text

r1913_01_24

r1920_03_08

Sayings_of_Sri_Ramakrishna_(text)

Sophist

Story_of_the_Warrior_and_the_Captive

Symposium_translated_by_B_Jowett

Tablet_1_-

Tablets_of_Baha_u_llah_text

Talks_125-150

Talks_500-550

Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1

Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_2

The_Act_of_Creation_text

Theaetetus

The_Aleph

The_Book_of_Certitude_-_P2

The_Coming_Race_Contents

The_Divine_Names_Text_(Dionysis)

The_Dream_of_a_Ridiculous_Man

The_Dwellings_of_the_Philosophers

the_Eternal_Wisdom

The_First_Epistle_of_Paul_to_the_Corinthians

The_Five,_Ranks_of_The_Apparent_and_the_Real

The_Garden_of_Forking_Paths_2

The_Gold_Bug

The_Gospel_According_to_John

The_Gospel_According_to_Luke

The_Gospel_According_to_Mark

The_Gospel_According_to_Matthew

The_Immortal

The_Monadology

The_One_Who_Walks_Away

The_Pilgrims_Progress

The_Revelation_of_Jesus_Christ_or_the_Apocalypse

The_Riddle_of_this_World

The_Shadow_Out_Of_Time

Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra_text

Timaeus

Verses_of_Vemana

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18000 books ranked

Epic Poetry (ranked)

Frank Herbert

list of geniuses from ranker

rank

scores, ratings, grades, rank

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rank ::: 1. A relative position in a society. 2. A line of persons, esp. soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (distinguished from file). 3. Orderly arrangement; array. 4. A row, line, series, or range. ranks, ranked.

ranked among the highest angelic beings and to

ranked ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Rank

ranker ::: n. --> One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.

rank: Have a specified 'rank' or place/position within a grading system.

rank higher than that of Metatron. [Rf 3 Enoch.]

ranking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Rank

rankle ::: a. --> To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom. ::: v. t.

rankled ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Rankle

rankling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Rankle

rankly ::: adv. --> With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.

rankness ::: n. --> The condition or quality of being rank.

rank of angels in the celestial hierarchy. In the

rank of archangel for Michael, as in Steiner, The

ranks also as the angel of Paradise.

ranks or orders of spirits who compose the hier¬

rank ::: superl. --> Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.

ranks; yet he serves as a ruler of the realm of the

Rankei Doryu 蘭溪道隆. See LANXI DAOLONG

Rank-Ordered Array ::: A table consisting of data in order of highest to lowest or lowest to highest where each data is given a numbered rank depicting it&


TERMS ANYWHERE

1. Greatest in importance, degree, significance, character, or achievement. greatest; utmost; ultimate. 2. Highest in rank or authority; paramount; sovereign; chief. supremeness.

1. Not proud or arrogant; modest. 2. Low in rank, importance, status, quality, etc.; lowly.

1. The state or quality of being divine. 2. A deity, such as a god or goddess; the Supreme Being. 3. The nature of a deity or the state of being divine. 4. A being having divine attributes, ranking below God but above humans. divinity"s, divinities.

abase ::: a. --> To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.

academy ::: n. --> A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
A place of training; a school.
A society of learned men united for the advancement of the

admiral ::: n. --> A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.
The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.
A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.

advance ::: v. t. --> To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
To raise; to elevate.
To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one&

aggrandizement ::: n. --> The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

aggrandize ::: v. t. --> To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.
To make appear great or greater; to exalt. ::: v. i.

alderman ::: n. --> A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.
One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

aldermanry ::: n. --> The district or ward of an alderman.
The office or rank of an alderman.

ambassadors ::: 1. Diplomatic officials of the highest rank. 2. Authorized messengers or representatives.

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antrustion ::: n. --> A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises

apertness ::: n. --> Openness; frankness.

apotheosis ::: n. pl. --> The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, "the gods;" deification.
Glorification; exaltation.

apprentice ::: n. --> One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.
A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years&

archangel ::: a chief or principal angel, the highest angel in rank. Archangel, Archangel"s.

archdeacon ::: n. --> In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority.

aristocracy ::: n. --> Government by the best citizens.
A ruling body composed of the best citizens.
A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy.
The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or

aristocrat ::: n. --> One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.
One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person.
One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern.

arow ::: adv. --> In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order.

array ::: n. --> Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
An imposing series of things.
Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer,

arrogance ::: n. --> The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.

arrogant ::: a. --> Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one&

arsenic ::: n. --> One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356¡ Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenicum of the ancients. The element and its compounds are

avowal ::: n. --> An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.

avow ::: v. t. --> To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.
To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. ::: n. --> Avowal.

banneret ::: n. --> Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.
A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
A small banner.

baronage ::: n. --> The whole body of barons or peers.
The dignity or rank of a baron.
The land which gives title to a baron.

baronetage ::: n. --> State or rank of a baronet.
The collective body of baronets.

baronetcy ::: n. --> The rank or patent of a baronet.

baron ::: n. --> A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.

barony ::: n. --> The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.

brank ::: n. --> Buckwheat.
Alt. of Branks ::: v. i. --> To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.
To prance; to caper.

branks ::: n. --> A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.

brankursine ::: n. --> Bear&

before ::: prep. --> In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.
Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that.
An advance of; farther onward, in place or time.
Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than.

begum ::: n. --> In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.

behind ::: a. --> On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.
Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death.
Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement.

bell crank ::: --> A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

below ::: prep. --> Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.
Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.
Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath. ::: adv.

beneath ::: prep. --> Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.
Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens.
Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming.

better ::: a. --> Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.
Greater in amount; larger; more.
Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.
More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance;

bicycle ::: n. --> A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider&

bluff ::: a. --> Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.
Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.
Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain. ::: n.

bourgeois ::: n. --> A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. ::: a. --> Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

rank ::: 1. A relative position in a society. 2. A line of persons, esp. soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (distinguished from file). 3. Orderly arrangement; array. 4. A row, line, series, or range. ranks, ranked.

ranked ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Rank

ranker ::: n. --> One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.

ranking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Rank

rankle ::: a. --> To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom. ::: v. t.

rankled ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Rankle

rankling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Rankle

rankly ::: adv. --> With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.

rankness ::: n. --> The condition or quality of being rank.

rank ::: superl. --> Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.

brevetcy ::: n. --> The rank or condition of a brevet officer.

brevet ::: n. --> A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].
A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer. ::: v. t. --> To confer rank upon by brevet.

brigadier general ::: --> An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.

brother ::: n. --> A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive

buffoonery ::: n. --> The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.

cadetship ::: n. --> The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship.

candid ::: a. --> White.
Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; fair; just; impartial; as, a candid opinion.
Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken.

candor ::: n. --> Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.
A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.

cap ::: a special head covering worn to indicate rank, occupation, or membership in a particular group.

caper ::: v. i. --> To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. ::: n. --> A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank.
A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer.

capitulary ::: n. --> A capitular.
The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.
A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections. ::: a.

cap ::: n. --> A covering for the head
One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys
One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants
One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
A respectful uncovering of the head.
The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill

captaincy ::: n. --> The rank, post, or commission of a captain.

captain ::: n. --> A head, or chief officer
The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service.
An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army.
By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel,

captainship ::: n. --> The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander.
Military skill; as, to show good captainship.

cardinalate ::: n. --> The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.

carnifex ::: n. --> The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.

crankbird ::: n. --> A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

cranked ::: a. --> Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.

crankiness ::: n. --> Crankness.

crankle ::: v. t. --> To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. ::: v. i. --> To bend, turn, or wind. ::: n.

crank ::: n. --> A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.
Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also,

crankness ::: n. --> Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.
Sprightliness; vigor; health.

cranky ::: a. --> Full of spirit; crank.
Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety.
Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.

cense ::: n. --> A census; -- also, a public rate or tax.
Condition; rank. ::: v. t. --> To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices. ::: v. i.

chasm ::: n. --> A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.

chasseur ::: n. --> One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.
An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword.

chieftainship ::: n. --> The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.

classical ::: n. --> Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
Conforming to the best authority in literature and art;

class ::: n. --> A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders,

close ::: n. --> To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.
To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often used with up.
To bring to an end or period; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to end; to consummate; as, to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction.
To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to

coequal ::: a. --> Being on an equality in rank or power. ::: n. --> One who is on an equality with another.

coequality ::: n. --> The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.

colloquy ::: n. --> Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.
In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.

colonelcy ::: n. --> The office, rank, or commission of a colonel.

colonel ::: n. --> The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

column ::: n. --> A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.
Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column.
A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; --

commander ::: n. --> A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.
An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.
The chief officer of a commandery.
A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.

commandery ::: n. --> The office or rank of a commander.
A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.
An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons.
A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.

commodore ::: n. --> An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.
A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.
A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.

commonalty ::: n. --> The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.
The majority or bulk of mankind.

commoner ::: n. --> One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
A member of the House of Commons.
One who has a joint right in common ground.
One sharing with another in anything.
A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner.
A prostitute.

communicate ::: v. i. --> To share in common; to participate in.
To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.
To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.
To administer the communion to.
To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.

companion ::: n. --> One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.
A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.
A fellow; -- in contempt.
A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of

compeer ::: 1. An equal in rank, ability, accomplishment, etc.; peer; colleague. 2. A comrade, companion, or associate. compeers.

compeer ::: --> An equal, as in rank, age, prowess, etc.; a companion; a comrade; a mate. ::: v. t. --> To be equal with; to match. ::: v. i.

condescend ::: v. i. --> To stoop or descend; to let one&

condescension ::: n. --> The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one&

condition ::: n. --> Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
Essential quality; property; attribute.
Temperament; disposition; character.
That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms

consequence ::: n. --> That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.
A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
Chain of causes and effects; consecution.
Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction.

coordinate ::: a. --> Equal in rank or order; not subordinate. ::: v. t. --> To make coordinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coordinate ideas in classification.
To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust;

coordinateness ::: n. --> The state of being coordinate; equality of rank or authority.

coordination ::: n. --> The act of coordinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coordination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coordination of functions.
The state of being coordinate, or of equal rank, dignity, power, etc.

cornetcy ::: n. --> The commission or rank of a cornet.

coroneted ::: a. --> Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.

coronet ::: n. --> An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown.
The upper part of a horse&

corvette ::: n. --> A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.

counselorship ::: n. --> The function and rank or office of a counselor.

countermarch ::: v. i. --> To march back, or to march in reversed order. ::: n. --> A marching back; retrocession.
An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front

crest ::: n. --> A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal&

culminate ::: v. i. --> To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.
To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc. ::: a. --> Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth;

drank ::: imp. --> of Drink.
of Drink ::: n. --> Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant. html{color:

decardinalize ::: v. t. --> To depose from the rank of cardinal.

degradation ::: n. --> The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one&

degraded ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Degrade ::: a. --> Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.
Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.

degradement ::: n. --> Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.

degrade ::: v. t. --> To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.
To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and

degree ::: n. --> A step, stair, or staircase.
One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.
The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.
Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ

deified ::: 1. Made a god of; exalted to the rank of a deity. 2. Regarded or adored as a deity.

deify ::: v. t. --> To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was deified.
To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money.
To render godlike.

demivill ::: n. --> A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges.

derange ::: v. t. --> To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.
To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism.
To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.

designator ::: n. --> An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
One who designates.

dietine ::: n. --> A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.

dignify ::: v. t. --> To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.

dignitary ::: n. --> One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.

dignity ::: n. --> The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
Elevation; grandeur.
Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.
Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.

disrank ::: v. t. --> To degrade from rank.
To throw out of rank or into confusion.

disdeify ::: v. t. --> To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition.

disgraduate ::: v. t. --> To degrade; to reduce in rank.

disingenuous ::: a. --> Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.

disparagement ::: n. --> Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.
Injurious comparison with an inferior; a depreciating or dishonoring opinion or insinuation; diminution of value; dishonor; indignity; reproach; disgrace; detraction; -- commonly with to.

disparage ::: v. t. --> To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.
To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue. ::: n.

disparity ::: n. --> Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color.

disrate ::: v. t. --> To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade.

distance ::: n. --> The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.
Remoteness of place; a remote place.
A space marked out in the last part of a race course.
Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left.

distichous ::: n. --> Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

doctorate ::: n. --> The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor. ::: v. t. --> To make (one) a doctor.

donship ::: n. --> The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight.

doric ::: a. --> Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.
Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.

dowagerism ::: n. --> The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively.

dowager ::: n. --> A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease.
A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband&

downfall ::: n. --> A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.

downward ::: adj. 1. Descending from a source or beginning. 2. Moving or tending to a lower place or condition. 3. Toward a lower amount, degree, or rank. adv. 4. Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position.

draglink ::: n. --> A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
A drawbar.

drake ::: n. --> The male of the duck kind.
The drake fly.
A dragon.
A small piece of artillery.
Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank.

dress ::: v. t. --> To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.
To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.
To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.

ducally ::: adv. --> In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.

earl ::: n. --> A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.
The needlefish.

embassador ::: n. --> A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.
An official messenger and representative.
Same as Ambassador.

emeership ::: n. --> The rank or office of an Emir.

eminence ::: n. --> That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height.
An elevated condition among men; a place or station above men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity; social or moral loftiness; high rank; distinction; preferment.
A title of honor, especially applied to a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.

eminences ::: persons or things of high station, rank or repute.

emperorship ::: n. --> The rank or office of an emperor.

empress ::: a female sovereign having the rank equivalent to that of an emperor.

enrank ::: v. t. --> To place in ranks or in order.

ennoble ::: v. t. --> To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.
To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.

enrange ::: v. t. --> To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange.
To rove over; to range.

ensigncy ::: n. --> The rank or office of an ensign.

ensign ::: n. --> A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.
A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.
Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.
Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.

ensignship ::: n. --> The state or rank of an ensign.

envoy ::: n. --> One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy&

epaulette ::: n. --> A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot.

equality ::: n. --> The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights.
Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.
Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface.
Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes

escapade ::: n. --> The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.
Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.

estate ::: 1. The situation or circumstances of one"s life. 2. Social position or rank, especially of high order. 3. A person"s total possessions (property, money etc.). 4. A landed property, usually, of considerable size. estates.

estate ::: n. --> Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.
A person of high rank.
A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.
The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the

etat major ::: --> The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers.

etiquette ::: n. --> The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.

eunuch ::: n. --> A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women&

exalt ::: to raise in rank, character, or status; elevate. exalted.

exalt ::: v. t. --> To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.
To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.
To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.

examinership ::: n. --> The office or rank of an examiner.

exceed ::: v. t. --> To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours. ::: v. i.

expectation ::: n. --> The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
That which is expected or looked for.
The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are

fairly ::: adv. --> In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.
Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade.
Honestly; properly.
Softly; quietly; gently.

famulist ::: n. --> A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.

favorite ::: n. --> A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority.
Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.
The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.

frankalmoigne ::: a. --> A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms.

frank-chase ::: n. --> The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase.

frank ::: direct; ingenuous, open, sincere; undisguised; straightforward. frankness.

franked ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Frank

frank-fee ::: n. --> A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold.

frankfort black ::: --> A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.

frankincense ::: an aromatic gum resin obtained from African and Asian trees of the genus Boswellia and used chiefly as incense and in perfumes.

frankincense ::: n. --> A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.

franking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Frank ::: n. --> A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter.

frankish ::: a. --> Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.

frank-law ::: n. --> The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights.

franklin ::: a. --> An English freeholder, or substantial householder.

franklinic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin.

franklinite ::: n. --> A kind of mineral of the spinel group.

franklin stove ::: --> A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.

frankly ::: adv. --> In a frank manner; freely.

frank-marriage ::: n. --> A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten.

frank ::: n. --> A pigsty.
The common heron; -- so called from its note.
Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
Free in uttering one&

frankness ::: n. --> The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.

frankpledge ::: n. --> A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.
The tithing itself.

fellow ::: n. --> A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.
A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.
A person; an individual.
In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to

fester ::: n. --> To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
A festering or rankling.

file ::: n. --> An orderly succession; a line; a row
A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.
An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of

files ::: a line of persons or things placed one behind another (distinguished from ‘rank").

first-class ::: a. --> Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.

fishy ::: a. --> Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.
Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.

forerank ::: n. --> The first rank; the front.

foremost ::: a. --> First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.

fowlerite ::: n. --> A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.

foxy ::: a. --> Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily.
Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of this color.
Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smeelling.
Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of

francic ::: a. --> Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish.

freak ::: v. t. --> To variegate; to checker; to streak. ::: n. --> A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.

freedom ::: n. --> The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.
Privileges; franchises; immunities.
Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.
Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.
Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum;

free-hearted ::: a. --> Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth.

friborgh ::: n. --> The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.

frolic ::: a. --> Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. ::: n. --> A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.
A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.

frolicsome ::: a. --> Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.

front ::: n. --> The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front.
The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank;

frouzy ::: a. --> Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy.

fusty ::: superl --> Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.
Moping.

gambol ::: n. --> A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. ::: v. i. --> To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.

garb ::: n. --> Clothing in general.
The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.
Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.
External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.

gatling gun ::: --> An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

gentilly ::: a. --> In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly.

gentleman ::: n. --> A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.
One of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man.
One who bears arms, but has no title.
The servant of a man of rank.
A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.

gentlewoman ::: n. --> A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.
A woman who attends a lady of high rank.

gentry ::: a. --> Birth; condition; rank by birth.
People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.
Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

godship ::: n. --> The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess.

gopher ::: n. --> One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.

gradation ::: n. --> The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.
Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.

graded ::: arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks.

grade ::: n. --> A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.
The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.

grandee ::: n. --> A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king&

grandeeship ::: n. --> The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship.

graveolent ::: a. --> Having a rank smell.

gree ::: n. --> Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably.
Rank; degree; position.
The prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i. e., to carry off the prize.
A step.

grower ::: n. --> One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.

hassock ::: n. --> A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock.
A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use.

hatchment ::: n. --> A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement.
A sword or other mark of the profession of arms; in general, a mark of dignity.

headborrow ::: n. --> The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder.
A petty constable.

heartswelling ::: a. --> Rankling in, or swelling, the heart.

helmet ::: n. --> A defensive covering for the head. See Casque, Headpiece, Morion, Sallet, and Illust. of Beaver.
The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.
A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.

hierarchy ::: n. --> Dominion or authority in sacred things.
A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.
A rank or order of holy beings.

highness ::: n. --> The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.
A title of honor given to kings, princes, or other persons of rank; as, His Royal Highness.

horsetail ::: n. --> A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.
A Turkish standard, denoting rank.

hotchpotch ::: n. --> A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.
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

hotel ::: n. --> A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.
In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.

hurdy-gurdy ::: n. --> A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.
In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.

imparity ::: n. --> Inequality; disparity; disproportion; difference of degree, rank, excellence, number, etc.
Lack of comparison, correspondence, or suitableness; incongruity.
Indivisibility into equal parts; oddness.

inequality ::: n. --> The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances, motions, rank, property, etc.
Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc.
Variableness; changeableness; inconstancy; lack of

inferior ::: 1. Lower in rank, position, importance or status; subordinate. 2. Low or lower in quality, value, or estimation.

inferior ::: a. --> Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.
Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.
Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.
Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an

inferiority ::: --> The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.

infile ::: v. t. --> To arrange in a file or rank; to place in order.

ingenuous ::: a. --> Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
Ingenious.

ingenuousness ::: n. --> The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.
Ingenuity.

insignia ::: a badge or emblem of membership, office, rank or dignity; an official or distinguishing sign.

installation ::: n. --> The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish.
The whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.

install ::: v. t. --> To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president.

instate ::: v. t. --> To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor.

intermarry ::: v. i. --> To become connected by marriage between their members; to give and take mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, castes, etc.

internuncio ::: n. --> A messenger between two parties.
A representative, or charge d&

investiture ::: 1. The act of presenting with a title or with the robes and insignia of an office or rank. Chiefly fig. **2. The formal bestowal, confirmation, or presentation of rank, office, etc. investitured.**

invest ::: v. t. --> To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.
To put on.
To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate.
To surround, accompany, or attend.

jamestown weed ::: --> The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.

jemidar ::: n. --> The chief or leader of a hand or body of persons; esp., in the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army.

jig ::: n. --> A light, brisk musical movement.
A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.
A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.
A small machine or handy tool
A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and

junior ::: a. --> Less advanced in age than another; younger.
Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.
Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2. ::: n.

kingdom ::: n. --> The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.
The territory or country subject to a king or queen; the dominion of a monarch; the sphere in which one is king or has control.
An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading or ruling characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the mineral kingdom.

king ::: n. --> A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.
A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince.
One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of

knight ::: n. --> A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John.

ladyship ::: n. --> The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your).

landgrave ::: n. --> A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.

lateran ::: n. --> The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world.

least ::: 1. Lowest in importance or rank. 2. Smallest in magnitude or degree. 3. To or in the lowest or smallest degree.

lessen ::: a. --> To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune. ::: v. i. --> To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we

levelism ::: n. --> The disposition or endeavor to level all distinctions of rank in society.

:::   "Liberty in one shape or another ranks among the most ancient and certainly among the most difficult aspirations of our race: it arises from a radical instinct of our being and is yet opposed to all our circumstances, it is our eternal good and our condition of perfection, but our temporal being has failed to find its key. That perhaps is because true freedom is only possible if we live in the infinite, live, as the Vedanta bids us, in and from our self-existent being; but our natural and temporal energies seek for it first not in ourselves, but in our external conditions. This great indefinable thing, liberty, is in its highest and ultimate sense a state of being; it is self living in itself and determining by its own energy what is shall be inwardly and, eventually, by the growth of a divine spiritual power within determining too what it shall make of its external circumstances and environment." War and Self-Determination

“Liberty in one shape or another ranks among the most ancient and certainly among the most difficult aspirations of our race: it arises from a radical instinct of our being and is yet opposed to all our circumstances, it is our eternal good and our condition of perfection, but our temporal being has failed to find its key. That perhaps is because true freedom is only possible if we live in the infinite, live, as the Vedanta bids us, in and from our self-existent being; but our natural and temporal energies seek for it first not in ourselves, but in our external conditions. This great indefinable thing, liberty, is in its highest and ultimate sense a state of being; it is self living in itself and determining by its own energy what is shall be inwardly and, eventually, by the growth of a divine spiritual power within determining too what it shall make of its external circumstances and environment.” War and Self-Determination

lieutenancy ::: n. --> The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant.
The body of lieutenants or subordinates.

lieutenant general ::: --> An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general.

lieutenant ::: n. --> An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.
A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain.
A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander.
A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in

lofty ::: superl. --> Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.

lord ::: n. --> A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for

lowborn ::: a. --> Born in a low condition or rank; -- opposed to highborn.

lowly ::: a. --> Not high; not elevated in place; low.
Low in rank or social importance.
Not lofty or sublime; humble.
Having a low esteem of one&

luxuriance ::: n. --> The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth.

luxuriant ::: a. --> Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.

magnate ::: --> A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere.
One of the nobility, or certain high officers of state belonging to the noble estate in the national representation of Hungary, and formerly of Poland.

maharajah ::: n. --> A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.

majesty ::: n. --> The dignity and authority of sovereign power; quality or state which inspires awe or reverence; grandeur; exalted dignity, whether proceeding from rank, character, or bearing; imposing loftiness; stateliness; -- usually applied to the rank and dignity of sovereigns.
Hence, used with the possessive pronoun, the title of an emperor, king or queen; -- in this sense taking a plural; as, their majesties attended the concert.

major ::: a. --> Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
Of greater dignity; more important.
Of full legal age.
Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.
An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a

majorate ::: n. --> The office or rank of a major. ::: a. --> To augment; to increase.

major general ::: --> An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.

majority ::: n. --> The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
The military rank of a major.
The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one&

mandarinate ::: n. --> The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.

marchioness ::: n. --> The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.

mareschal ::: n. --> A military officer of high rank; a marshal.

marquee ::: n. --> A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank.

marquis ::: n. --> A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent.

marshal ::: n. --> Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.
An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like
One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant.
One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.

meadow ::: n. --> A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay. ::: a.

mediatize ::: v. t. --> To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; -- specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank.

megaphyton ::: n. --> An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds.

menial ::: n. --> Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean.
A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
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merovingian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France. ::: n. --> One of the kings of this dynasty.

middle ::: a. --> Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.
Intermediate; intervening.
The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central

middleman ::: n. --> An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.
A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.
The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.

middling ::: a. --> Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.

midshipman ::: n. --> Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.
In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant.

mince ::: v. t. --> To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
To affect; to make a parade of. ::: v. i.

minister ::: n. --> A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
An officer of justice.
One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.
A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic

misalliance ::: n. --> A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.

monseigneur ::: n. --> My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.) html{color:

monsignore ::: n. --> My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court. (Abbrev. Mgr.)

morganatic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband.

most ::: a. --> Consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all.
Greatest in degree; as, he has the most need of it.
Highest in rank; greatest.
In the greatest or highest degree.

much ::: Compar. & superl. wa --> Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.
Many in number.
High in rank or position. ::: n.

musty ::: n. --> Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books.
Spoiled by age; rank; stale.
Dull; heavy; spiritless.

n. 1. Emotional or spiritual exaltation. 2. An elevating effect, result, or influence in the sphere of morality, emotion, physical condition, etc. v. 3. To lift up; raise; elevate. 4. To elevate in rank, honour, estate, or estimation. 5. To exalt emotionally or spiritually. uplifts, uplifting.

n. 1. The horizontal line or plane in which anything is situated, with regard to its elevation. 2. A plane or position in a graded scale; position in a hierarchy. 3. On the same plane, on an equality (with). levels. *adj. 4.** *Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another. 5. Height, position, strength, rank, plane, etc. Also fig. v. 6. Fig. To bring persons or things to an equal level; equalize. levelled, all-levelling.**

naive ::: a. --> Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks.

nawab ::: n. --> A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.

next ::: superl. --> Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening.
Nearest in time; as, the next day or hour.
Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order.
Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next heir was an infant. ::: adv.

nightcap ::: n. --> A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
A potion of spirit drank at bedtime.

nobility ::: 1. The state or quality of being exalted in character or spirit. 2. The noble class; noble birth or rank. 3. Grandeur or magnificence. nobility"s.

nobility ::: n. --> The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.
The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.
Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.

nobleman ::: n. --> One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

noblesse ::: n. --> Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition.
The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females.

noble ::: superl. --> Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.
Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.
Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.

noblewoman ::: n. --> A female of noble rank; a peeress.

not equal in amount, size, quality, quantity, value, rank, etc.

nuncio ::: n. --> A messenger.
The permanent official representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios.

octostichous ::: a. --> In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.

ojo ::: n. --> A spring, surrounded by rushes or rank grass; an oasis.

olibanum ::: n. --> The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.

olibene ::: n. --> A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene.

open; frank; guileless.

open-hearted ::: a. --> Candid; frank; generous.

optime ::: n. --> One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.

ordinance ::: n. --> Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.
A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance.
An established rite or ceremony.
Rank; order; station.
Ordnance; cannon.

ordinary ::: a. --> According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.
Common; customary; usual.
Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book.

orthostichy ::: n. --> A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.

outrank ::: v. t. --> To exceed in rank; hence, to take precedence of.

overbattle ::: a. --> Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths.

overrank ::: a. --> Too rank or luxuriant.

overgrow ::: v. t. --> To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank.
To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress. ::: v. i. --> To grow beyond the fit or natural size; as, a huge,

parament ::: n. --> Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural.

paramount ::: a. --> Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty. ::: n. --> The highest or chief.

parentage ::: n. --> Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage.

pasha ::: n. --> An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw.

patricianism ::: n. --> The rank or character of patricians.

pawn ::: n. --> See Pan, the masticatory.
A man or piece of the lowest rank.
Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
A stake hazarded in a wager.

pranked ::: dressed or decorated showily or gaudily.

pranked ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Prank

pranker ::: n. --> One who dresses showily; a prinker.

pranking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Prank

prankish ::: a. --> Full of pranks; frolicsome.

prank ::: v. t. --> To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink. ::: v. i. --> To make ostentatious show.

peasant ::: a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm labourers of low social rank.

peerage ::: n. --> The rank or dignity of a peer.
The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.

peer ::: a person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age. peers.

peer ::: v. i. --> To come in sight; to appear.
To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day. ::: n. --> One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

pentastichous ::: a. --> Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree.

petition ::: n. --> A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer.
A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a

petty ::: 1. Of small importance; trivial. 2. Secondary in importance or rank; subordinate. pettier.

phalanx ::: an ancient military formation of serried ranks surrounded by shields; hence, any crowded mass of people or group united for a common purpose. phalanxes, phalanxed.

phalanx ::: n. --> A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.
Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.
A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.
One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the

place-proud ::: a. --> Proud of rank or office.

plain-hearted ::: a. --> Frank; sincere; artless.

populace ::: n. --> The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.

pre- ::: --> A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; preeminent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent.

preaudience ::: n. --> Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers.

precedency ::: n. --> The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.
The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners.

precede ::: v. t. --> To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.
To go before in place, rank, or importance.
To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.

preeminence ::: n. --> The quality or state of being preeminent; superiority in prominence or in excellence; distinction above others in quality, rank, etc.; rarely, in a bad sense, superiority or notoriety in evil; as, preeminence in honor.

prefer ::: v. t. --> To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc.
To go before, or be before, in estimation; to outrank; to surpass.
To cause to go before; hence, to advance before others, as to an office or dignity; to raise; to exalt; to promote; as, to

prerogative ::: n. --> An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.
Precedence; preeminence; first rank.

presence ::: n. --> The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.
The place in which one is present; the part of space within one&

pride ::: n. --> A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one&

primacy ::: a. --> The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.
The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.

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prince ::: a. --> The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female.
The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood.
A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a

princedom ::: n. --> The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince.

princely ::: a. --> Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc.
Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune. ::: adv. --> In a princely manner.

princess ::: n. --> A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince.
The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family.
The consort of a prince; as, the princess of Wales.

principal ::: a. --> Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.
Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. ::: n.

prink ::: v. t. --> To dress or adjust one&

priority ::: a. --> The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
Precedence; superior rank.

privation ::: n. --> The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.
The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.
The condition of being absent; absence; negation.

promote ::: v. t. --> To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.
To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer. ::: v. i.

promottion ::: n. --> The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment.

protopope ::: n. --> One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.

puisne ::: a. --> Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent.
Puny; petty; unskilled.
Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer. ::: n.

purple ::: n. --> A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.
Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.
Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.

pursuivant ::: n. --> A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; -- called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.
The king&

quadrifarious ::: a. --> Arranged in four rows or ranks; as, quadrifarious leaves.

quality ::: n. --> The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.
That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power,

quartering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Quartter ::: a. --> Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.

queenship ::: n. --> The state, rank, or dignity of a queen.

raise ::: v. t. --> To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to

rammish ::: a. --> Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious.

rampant ::: v. --> Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious.
Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant.
Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said of a beast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right hind leg should be raised higher than the left.

rancid ::: a. --> Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.

range ::: n. --> To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
To separate into parts; to sift.
To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to

rappee ::: v. --> A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.

rate ::: v. t. & i. --> To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently. ::: n. --> Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of

reak ::: n. --> A rush.
A prank.

reckon ::: v. t. --> To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of

rectiserial ::: a. --> Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on stems of many kinds; -- opposed to curviserial.

rectorate ::: n. --> The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.

rectorship ::: n. --> Government; guidance.
The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.

reduce ::: n. --> To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding,

reezed ::: a. --> Grown rank; rancid; rusty.

reformado ::: v. t. --> A monk of a reformed order.
An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay.

rehabilitate ::: v. t. --> To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law.

reng ::: n. --> A rank; a row.
A rung or round of a ladder.

retinue ::: the retainers or attendants accompanying a high-ranking person.

rivality ::: n. --> Rivalry; competition.
Equality, as of right or rank.

robe ::: n. 1. A long loose flowing outer garment. 2.* An official garment worn on formal occasions to show office or rank, as by a judge or high church official; a ceremonial dress, an official vestment, or garb of office. 3. Fig. A covering likened to a robe. robes. v. 4. Cover or dress in or as if in a robe. Also fig. *robes, robed, dark-robed, green-robed, hue-robed.

robe ::: v. t. --> An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.
A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.

roody ::: a. --> Rank in growth.

room ::: n. --> Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.
A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station;

row ::: a. & adv. --> Rough; stern; angry. ::: n. --> A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.
The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

rude ::: superl. --> Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship.
Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like.

sagamore ::: n. --> The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.
A juice used in medicine.

saheb ::: n. --> A respectful title or appellation given to Europeans of rank.

salian ::: a. --> Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic. ::: n. --> A Salian Frank.

salic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so called.

salutatorian ::: n. --> The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.

scranky ::: a. --> Thin; lean.

scribe ::: a general designation for any public official (whether of high or low rank) concerned with writing or the keeping of accounts; a secretary, clerk. Scribe, scribes.

sea heath ::: --> A low perennial plant (Frankenia laevis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.

sea ::: n. --> One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth&

second ::: a. --> Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other.
Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.
The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of

secondary ::: a. --> Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.

second-class ::: a. --> Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.

second-rate ::: a. --> Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.

sect ::: n. --> A cutting; a scion.
Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.

senior ::: a. --> More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools. ::: n.

serried ::: pressed or crowded together, especially in rows, as troops in serried ranks.

servitorship ::: n. --> The office, rank, or condition of a servitor.

sesquialtera ::: n. --> A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reenforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.

shaper ::: n. --> One who shapes; as, the shaper of one&

shrank ::: --> imp. of Shrink. ::: imp. --> of Shrink

shrank ::: past tense of shrink.

siege ::: n. --> A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
Hence, place or situation; seat.
Rank; grade; station; estimation.
Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy&

size ::: n. --> Six.
A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.
Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.

smallsword ::: n. --> A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.

sort ::: n. --> Chance; lot; destiny.
A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
Manner; form of being or acting.
Condition above the vulgar; rank.
A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be

sovereign ::: n. 1. One that exercises supreme, permanent authority, as a king, queen or monarch. Often applied to the Divine. child-sovereign. adj. 2. Supreme; pre-eminent; indisputable. 3. Being above all others in character, importance, excellence, etc. 4. Having supreme rank, power or authority. 5. Belonging to or characteristic of a king, queen or other supreme ruler; royal, regal, majestic.

squirehood ::: n. --> The rank or state of a squire; squireship.

star ::: n. --> One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.
The polestar; the north star.
A planet supposed to influence one&

state ::: n. --> The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.

station ::: 1. A place or position where a person or thing stands or is assigned to stand; a post. 2. Social position; rank stations.

stich ::: n. --> A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.
A row, line, or rank of trees.

straightforward ::: a. --> Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. ::: adv. --> In a straightforward manner.

strain ::: n. --> Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
Rank; a sort.
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship&

stratosphere ::: 1. The region of the Earth"s atmosphere extending from the tropopause to about 50 km (31 mi) above the Earth"s surface. The stratosphere is characterized by the presence of ozone gas (in the ozone layer) and by temperatures which rise slightly with altitude, due to the absorption of ultraviolet radiation. 2. An extremely high or the highest point or degree on a ranked scale.

strip ::: 1. To take; peel away; remove; sometimes with off. 2. To deprive of honors, rank, office, privileges, or possessions; to divest something of. covering, clothing or the like. strips, stripped.

*sun"s, suns, sun-beams, sun-beat, sun-blaze, sun-bright, sun-capped,, sun-clear, sun-dream, sun-eyed, sun-frank, sun-gaze, sun-gazing, sun-god"s, sun-gold, sun-held, sun-herds, sun-kissed, sun-laugh, sun-lift, sun-like, sun-march, sun-orb, sun-steppes, sun-stone, sun-thoughts, sun-vast, sun-veil, sun-white, sun-word, Sun-Word.

tenement ::: n. --> That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an

tertiary ::: a. --> Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.
Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
Growing on the innermost joint of a bird&

thicken ::: v. t. --> To make thick (in any sense of the word).
To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
To strengthen; to confirm.
To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows. ::: v. i.

three-piled ::: a. --> Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly.
Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown.
Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth.

thuriferous ::: a. --> Producing or bearing frankincense.

thus ::: n. --> The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers. ::: adv. --> In this or that manner; on this wise.
To this degree or extent; so far; so; as, thus wise; thus peaceble; thus bold.

tier ::: n. --> One who, or that which, ties.
A chold&

tire ::: n. --> A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.
Attire; apparel.
A covering for the head; a headdress.
A child&

tithing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Tithe ::: n. --> The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.
A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good

triaconter ::: n. --> A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.

triarian ::: a. --> Occupying the third post or rank.

trick ::: a. --> An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear&

trifarious ::: a. --> Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as the leaves of veratrum.

two-ranked ::: a. --> Alternately disposed on exactly opposite sides of the stem so as to from two ranks; distichous.

uncanonize ::: v. t. --> To deprive of canonical authority.
To reduce from the rank of a canonized saint.

uncity ::: v. t. --> To deprive of the rank or rights of a city.

undermost ::: a. --> Lowest, as in place, rank, or condition.

unequal ::: a. --> Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.
Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.
Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.

unfrankable ::: a. --> Not frankable; incapable of being sent free by public conveyance.

unlorded ::: a. --> Deprived of the rank of a lord.
Not raised to the rank of a lord.

unlord ::: v. t. --> To deprive of the rank or position of a lord.

unmartyr ::: v. t. --> To degrade from the rank of a martyr.

unmitre ::: v. t. --> To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop.

unqueen ::: v. t. --> To divest of the rank or authority of queen.

unreserve ::: n. --> Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication.

upper ::: comp. --> Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. ::: n. --> The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.

uppermost ::: a. --> Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.

usher ::: n. --> An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.
An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school. ::: v. t.

valedictorian ::: n. --> One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.

village ::: a small group of dwellings in a rural area, usually ranking in size between a hamlet and a town.

viscount ::: a. --> An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.
A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3.

viscounty ::: n. --> The quality, rank, or office of a viscount.

walty ::: a. --> Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship.

wapinschaw ::: n. --> An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district.