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s only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends. Whewell.

A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.

strike with, or as with, a racket. Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another. Hewyt.

reeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. Sir H. Wotton.

Place of receiving. [Obs.] He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom. Matt. ix. 9.

To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.

Tending to regulate; regulating. Whewell.

To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as the cud.

The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.

f. This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration. Whewell.

, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before thewrong done or the wrongdoer. To revenge the death of our fathers. Ld. Berners. The gods are just, and will revenge our cause. Dryden. Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius. Shak.…

edar bird. -- Golden robin (Zoöl.), the Baltimore oriole. -- Ground robin (Zoöl.), the chewink. -- Indian robin (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Asiatic saxoline birds of the genera Thamnobia and Pratincola. They are mostly black, usually with some white on the wings. -- Magrie robin (Zoöl.), an Asiatic singi…

Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud.

To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. "Cattle free to ruminate." Wordsworth.

The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud. Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward to chew it. Arbuthnot.

nts when the surface is scratched or the tail broken; -- so called from Prince Rupert, nephew of Charles I., by whom they were first brought to England. Called also Rupert's ball, and glass tear.

Pleasing to the organs of taste or smell. [Written also savoury.] The chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb. Milton.

s; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash. Let us score their backs. Shak. A briar in that tangled wilderness Had scored her white right hand. M. Arnold.

A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] Mayhew.