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ipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me. Shak.

of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another. Swift. Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion Sir W. Scott.

Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise. [Obs.] He did not believe it counselable. Clarendon.

(a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected. [Colloq.]

To make a show of; to pretend. [Obs.] Which to these ladies love did countenance. Spenser.

n line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument. The course of true love never did run smooth. Shak.

Crimson. [Obs.] A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. Motley.

a little before, bedrid, . . . was now crank and lusty. Udall. If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it. Mrs. Stowe.

To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.

t to; to raise the estimation of. You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit. South.

ping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly. How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents. South.

piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general. I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse. Shak.

e hand; to slap. I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again. Shak. They with their quills did all the hurt they could, And cuffed the tender chickens from their food. Dryden.

ibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work. Over them Arachne high did lift Her cunning web. Spenser.

Carefulness; painstaking. [Obs.] My father's care With curiousness and cost did train me up. Massinger.

To make a curvet; to leap; to bound. 'Oft and high he did curvet." Drayton.

bes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

ions; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time. Nor did Sabrina's presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities. W. Black.

to master, or sir. [Obs.] Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell. Spenser. What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land. Thomson.

o venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they durst not, because they could not. Macaulay. Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion. Thackeray. The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan…