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That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. Whewell.

d household assistant; a house servant. The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. V. Knox.

A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.

Free from fear or suspicion. [Obs.] Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. Shak.

wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it. Dowel joint, a joint secured by a dowel or dowels. -- Dowel pin, a dowel. See Dowel, n.,

To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.

Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den." Spenser.

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.

Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.

To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.

Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.

To make dusk or obscure. [R.] Not utterly defaced, but only duskened. Nicolls.

Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble.

To make clear; to clear up what is obscure or not understood; to explain.

The clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation. The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer. Clarendon.

To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing. "His eclipsed state." Dryden. My joy of liberty is half eclipsed. Shak.

e fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch.

in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance. "Eleemosynary cures." Boyle.

To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars. Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. Spenser.

ifficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18. I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you. Shak.