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y should shrive their parishioners. Piers Plowman. Doubtless he shrives this woman, . . . Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech. Shak. Till my guilty soul be shriven. Longfellow.

That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. A good swift simile, but something currish. Shak.

omplex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.

Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything. [R.] To skepticize, where no one else will . . . hesitate. Shaftesbury.

aling in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. -- Slave trader, one who traffics in slaves.

. that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails. Vegetius (Trans.).

to which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth. His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. Dryden.

Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else. Sense and not sound . . . must be the principle. Locke. Sound boarding, boards for holding pugging, placed in partitions of under floors in order to deaden sounds. -- Sound bow, in a series of transverse sections of a bell, that segment against which th…

a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte.

her; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. [Obs.] Dryden.

in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.

chant blade in hand, With which he stroke so furious and so fell. Spenser. Strike now, or else the iron cools. Shak.

That which is deposited beneath something else.

Put secretly in the place of something else; foisted in. [R.]

That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.

To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason.

Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.

in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically (Mil.),