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The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.

A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephew Ali.

Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself. Whewell.

To conceal; to hide; to screen. [R.] Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host. Shak.

how your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers). Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest. Matt. viii. 4. Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more Milton.

Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. [Written also shewbread.] Mark ii. 26.

To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice. I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Acts xx. 26,27. Scarcity and want shall shun you. Shak.

To exercise dominion; to signiorize. [Obs.] Hewyt.

instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. Spenser.

To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

thing, by study. [Obs.] Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew. Milton.

Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.

spotted for my perjury. Beau. & Fl. To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.

Hewing or dressing stone.

successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak.

noicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges. -- Swamp robin (Zoöl.), the chewink. -- Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genus Magnolia (M. glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also sweet bay. -- Swamp sparrow (Zoöl.), a common North America…

Conscience viewed as the internal repository of the laws of duty. Whewell.

esentation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic. Whewell.

s them 't is a causeless fantasy, And childish error, that they are afraid. Shak. I have shewed before, that a mere possibility to the contrary, can by no means hinder a thing from being highly credible. Bp. Wilkins.

A discourse on, or an account of, heat. Whewell.