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Constituting the freight or cargo. [Obs.] "The fraughting souls within her." Shak.

e reasons that moved her to remove were, because Rome was a place of riot and luxury, her soul being almost stifled with, the frequencies of ladies' visits. Fuller.

The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind. As the mind opens, and its functions spread. Pope.

a good living. What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul Matt. xvi. 26. To gain dominion, or to keep it gained. Milton. For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease. Pope.

The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.] Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser.

Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor. Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ] One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor.

; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy. What shall a man give in exchange for his soul Matt. xvi. 26.

Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. "Glutton souls." Dryden. A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Fuller.

in indissolubly. The gallies were grappled to the Centurion. Hakluyt. Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Shak.

Impression, as upon the mind or heart. New gravings upon their souls. Eikon Basilike

y the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances. How inly sorrow gripes his soul. Shak.

halve an apple; to be or form half of. So far apart their lives are thrown From the twin soul that halves their own. M. Arnold.

ed nerves." Blackmore. A lion hampered in a net. L'Estrange. They hamper and entangle our souls. Tillotson.

An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.

rowed up with whips. Rowe. I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. Shak.

The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. There is no health in us. Book of Common Prayer. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. Buckminster.…

By the influence or agency of heaven. Out heavenly guided soul shall climb. Milton.

The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades. He descended into hell. Book of Common Prayer. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. Ps. xvi. 10.

nce from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. "God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!" Shak.

tellectual; preëminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives. "The highest faculty of the soul." Baxter.