adv. [ All + anerly singly, fr. ane one. ] Solely; only. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. chalenge claim, accusation, challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See Calumny. ]
A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
There must be no challenge of superiority. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]
Challenge to the array (Law),
Challenge to the favor,
Challenge to the polls,
Peremptory challenge,
Principal challenge,
v. t.
I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
By this I challenge him to single fight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Challenge better terms. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
To challenge to the
array, favor, polls
v. i. To assert a right; to claim a place. [ 1913 Webster ]
Where nature doth with merit challenge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. That may be challenged. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
n. One who challenges. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
a. Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
Let it make thee crestfullen;
Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Fallen; ruined. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. [ 1913 Webster ]
Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ LL. fallentia, L. fallens p. pr of fallere. ] An exception. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Dejected; chopfallen. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. (Far.) Same as Malanders. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖a. [ It. ] (Mus.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. [ F. solandres, solandre. ] (Far.) An eruption on the hind leg of a horse.
On the inside of the hock, or a little below it, as well as at the bend of the knee, there is occasionally a scurfy eruption called “mallenders” in the fore leg, and “sallenders” in the hind leg. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. Blown down by the wind. [ 1913 Webster ]