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Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others. They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. Cudworth. In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. Keble.

In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.

The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. Selfishness,- a vice utterly at variance with…

Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness. Emerson.

A selfish person. [R.] I. Taylor.

Having no regard to self; unselfish. Lo now, what hearts have men! they never mount As high as woman in her selfless mood. Tennyson.

Quality or state of being selfless.

Selfishness. [Obs.] Sir. P. Sidney.

Precisely the same; the very same; identical. His servant was healed in the selfsame hour. Matt. viii. 13.

The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note. [Prov. Eng.]

ber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads. D. Kemp. To lay on the shelf, to lay aside as unnecessary or useless; to dismiss; to discard.

Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." Dryden.

As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.

undation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc.

To furnish (a road) with a telford pavement.

sonal pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with thou; as, thou thyself shalt go; that is, thou shalt go, and no other. It is sometimes used, especially in the predicate, without thou, and in the nominative as well as in the objective case. Thyself shalt see the act. Shak. Ere I do thee, thou to t…

As much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel.

Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.

An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.

See Twelfthtide.