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n the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded. Sir J. Hayward.

Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack. Mortimer.

The crop of hay got in a meadow. [Prov. Eng.]

iefly used in the past participle. The smell of grain or tedded grass. Milton. The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. Coleridge.

A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.

rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.

Hence, a small part or proportion. Bacon. Great tithes, tithes of corn, hay, and wood. -- Mixed tithes, tithes of wool, milk, pigs, etc. -- Small tithes, personal and mixed tithes. -- Tithe commissioner, one of a board of officers appointed by the government for arranging propositions for commuting, or compounding f…

lete by putting on, or finishing, the top or uppermost part of; as, to top off a stack of hay; hence, to complete; to finish; to adorn.

s had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward.

usted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse. Hayward. Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.…

A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep. [Eng.]

To open or spread from a cock or heap, as hay.

Inexcusable. Hayward. -- Un`ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n.

One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon.

Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] "To set upon the vague villains." Hayward. She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. Keats.

Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile. [Obs.] "Viled speeches." Hayward.

eing overcome or subdued; conquerable. "He, not vincible in spirit . . . drew his sword." Hayward. "Vincible by human aid." Paley. Vincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance within the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is responsible before God.

man sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.

A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow. Holland.