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To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of. [R.] That cuts us off from hope, and savors only Rancor and pride, impatience and despite. Milton.

Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.

r, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. Hawthorne.

art of larger body or territory; local. All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition. Story.

ugh the lids threads which were fastened over the head. Bacon. Fools climbs to fall: fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling. J. Reading.

de suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient. Hope and deubt alternate seize her seul. Pope.

ls that are to assign the good or evil to all, -- that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be. D. Webster.

the last piece of service I did for my master, King Charles. Dryden. To go on the forlorn hope is a service of peril; who will understake it if it be not also a service of honor Macaulay.

to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered. A man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humor. Norris.

Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge.

(Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate.

n numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. Milton. Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed. Prior.

Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution. Mighty hearts are held in slender chains. Pope. They have inferred much from slender premises. J. H. Newman. The slender utterance of the consonants. J. Byrne.

To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. [Obs. or Colloq.] With good hope let he sorrow slide. Chaucer. With a calm carelessness letting everything slide. Sir P. Sidney.

Slippery. [Obs.] O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope Of mortal men. Spenser.

(Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope.

n, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.

To address; to accost; to speak to. [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. Ecclus. xiii. 6. each village senior paused to scan And speak the lovely caravan. Emerson. To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander.

Within the range of hpe; proper to be hoped for. [Obs.] Bacon.

Hoped for, or to be hoped for. [R.] Bouvier.