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To take up; to elevate; to assume. [Obs.] Sheldon.

Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens.

; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times a day. Fielding.

that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer. Shak.

The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians.

which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.

carbonate of copper and zinc, found in pale green or blue crystalline aggregations. It yields a kind of brass on reduction.

An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet. Mansfield.

tion of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies.

A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. ~= feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.

nt that the very fact hath its foundation in truth, as I do seriously aver is the case. Fielding. Then all averred I had killed the bird. Coleridge.

arning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. Before whom awake I stood. Milton. She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. Keats. He was awake to the danger. Froude.

we in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear. Keble. To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe. Macaulay. The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power. C. J. Smith. To stand in awe of, to…

dge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinne…

The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.

One who wields an ax.

Any one of several species of Acacia, esp. A. Arabica, which yelds a gum used as a substitute for true gum arabic.

A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.

knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.