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teristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic names of the deities, which are supposed to have been primarily ghosts.

-- esp. used of reputation or character. I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken. Shak.

The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. Brewer.

Serviceable; helpful. [Obs.] Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. Shak.

emies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends. Bacon. Go to your mistress: Say, I command her come to me. Shak.

To qualify as a companion; to make equal. [Obs.] Companion me with my mistress. Shak.

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.

To mistake for another; to identify falsely.

s worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics. The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine convent…

Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle." Holdsworth.

s or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

fullness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman. He had received a cross answer from his mistress. Jer. Taylor.

t the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand. He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band,short cuffs, and a peaked beard. Arbuthnot.

(1413). If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures. Sharp.

A cunette. 3. (Spectrometry) (Analytical chemistry)

A misty shower; dew. [Obs.]

y. Shak. To make dainty, to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. [Obs.] Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all Will now deny to dance She that makes dainty, She, I'll swear, hath corns. Shak.

olors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity. Nichol.

A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a womam in authority; especially, a lady. Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife. Shak.

'tis time to dance off. Thackeray. More dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw. Shak. Shadows in the glassy waters dance. Byron. Where rivulets dance their wayward round. Wordsworth. To dance on a rope, or To dance on nothing, to be hanged.