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Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery. Mayhew.

Noisy mirth; joviality. Hewyt.

s by the adjective "moral" we denote that which has reference to the doctrine of duties. Whewell.

The peasant folklore of Europe still knows of willows that bleed and weep and speak when hewn. Tylor.

A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.

. must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation. Whewel.

Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten. [R.] Any manducable creature. Sir T. Herbert.

To masticate; to chew; to eat. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of chewing. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.

A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.

go tree (Bot.), an East Indian tree of the genus Mangifera (M. Indica), related to the cashew and the sumac. It grows to a large size, and produces the mango of commerce. It is now cultivated in tropical America.

in science or art. Manipulation is to the chemist like the external senses to the mind. Whewell.

of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel. The tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral. Milton.

grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.

The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot.

Chewing; adapted to perform the office o

real; physical; as, material substance or bodies. The material elements of the universe. Whewell.

arious subjects. 'T is but a bundle or miscellany of sin; sins original, and sins actual. Hewyt. Miscellany madam, a woman who dealt in various fineries; a milliner. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. [Obs.] Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem. Jer. vi. 6.