- Against queen, no measure is archaic
- Ancient
- Legacy
- Object from an earlier period
- Old piece of furniture or art
- Old relic
- On the outskirts of Antwerp, boutiques have valuable treasures
- ... he’s a jolly good fellow!
- Against’s obverse
- All of it
- Because
- In favour of
- In favour of four auditions
- In favour of four quotes
- A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing
by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are
represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .-
(A), - . . . (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), . . . (R), -- (T), etc., or
by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals
between them.
- Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the
genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail
feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre.
The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is
about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous
color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre
pheasant and lyre-tail.
- The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival,
motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it,
access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward;
-- opposed to from.
- Hence, it indicates motion, course, or tendency toward a
time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable of being
regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going
to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.
- In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of
application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or
indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs
with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon
that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation;
as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this
seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to
the mind; duty to God and to our parents; a dislike to spirituous
liquor.
- As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last
defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it
as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to
go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my
utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost
constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no
prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or
subject; thus, I love to learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's
country is noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the
infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage formerly allowed
the prefixing of for to the to; as, what went ye out for see? (Matt.
xi. 8).
- In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to
has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically.
- Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as;
as, they met us to the number of three hundred.
- Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered to
his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent factions exist to
the prejudice of the state.