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s. Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate. Clarendon.

st men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon.

A trumpeter. Clarendon.

To divest of the traits of a boy. [R.] Clarendon.

Not separated by inclosures; open. Clarendon.

uld concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people. Clarendon.

ored. Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London. Clarendon. -- Un*gra"cious*ly, adv. -- Un*gra"cious*ness, n.

Milton. The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form of worship. Clarendon.

Unskilled; inexperienced. [Obs.] Clarendon.

carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. "A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old." Clarendon. -- Un*wield"i*ly, adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness, n.

Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an utter refusal or denial. Clarendon. Utter bar (Law), the whole body of junior barristers. See Outer bar, under 1st Outer. [Eng.] -- Utter barrister (Law), one recently admitted as barrister, who is accustomed to plead without, or outside, the bar, as distinguished f…

er. Shak. Neither of them valued their promises according to rules of honor or integrity. Clarendon.

bdue in battle, as an enemy. Hakluyt. They . . . Vanquished the rebels in all encounters. Clarendon.

pen; conspicuous. Shak. The factions at court were greater, or more visible, than before. Clarendon. Visible church (Theol.), the apparent church of Christ on earth; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the invisible, or real, church, consisting of sanctified persons. -- Visible…

e a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed. Clarendon.

's self and support; to espouse. [Obs.] They positively and concernedly wedded his cause. Clarendon.

f which; after which. The townsmen mutinied and sent to Essex; whereupon he came thither. Clarendon.

rope with twine. To wind off, to unwind; to uncoil. -- To wind out, to extricate. [Obs.] Clarendon. -- To wind up. (a) To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely. (b) To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument. (c) To put in a state…

ress; to torment; to torture. Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune. Clarendon. Didst thou taste but half the griefs That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly. Addison.