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To hoot. [Obs.]

The state of being a widower.

ow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower. Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years. Leslie Stephen.

Womanhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Wifehood. [Obs.] Spenser.

hing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson.

The sailfish.

One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth. Cheyne.

in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

ion. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.

In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). "Have you much money about you" Bulwer.

sive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

ademus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

. 15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker.

The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook. [Obs.]