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Great age; long life. [Obs.] Glanvill.

A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. O'er the smooth enameled green. Milton.

In a grounded or firmly established manner. Glanvill.

yron. He shall, by thy revenging hand, at once receive the just guerdon of all his former villainies. Knolles.

Half-bred; imperfect. [R.] "A half-strained villain." Dryden.

A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden.

roperty in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.

A head or leading man, especially of a village community.

A derisive cry or shout. Glanvill.

To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish. We hug deformities if they bear our names. Glanvill.

ressure points, pressure upon which is said to cause an attack of hypnotic sleep. De Watteville.

nce of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. Rambler. Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucauld (Trans. ).

dy, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria. De Watteville.

Incapable of slipping, or of error. [R.] Morally immutable and illapsable. Glanvill.

An imaginer. [Obs.] Glanvill.

e apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination. Glanvill. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present. Bacon.

lose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove. "Villages imbosomed soft in trees." Thomson. The Father infinite, By whom in bliss imbosomed sat the Son. Milton.

To render immaterial or incorporeal. Immateralized spirits. Glanvill.

An impelling power or force. Glanvill.

That which impregnates. [R.] Glanvill.