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, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.

A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections. [Obs.] Milton.

to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc. He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. Dickens. -- To go in to or unto. (a) To enter the presence of. Esther iv. 16.(b) To have sexual in…

A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful. [Low] L'Estrange.

A selection from one of the gospels, for use in a religious service; as, the gospel for the day.

e' them the last tincture of crimson in grain. Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection.

The act of forming a groove or grooves; a groove, or collection of grooves.

The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.

tleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. Swift. Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. -- Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck;…

A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition. I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session. Walpole.

Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly. We hastily engaged in the war. Swift.

a block on which hats are formed or dressed. -- To pass around the hat, to take up a collection of voluntary contributions, which are often received in a hat. [Collog.] Lowell.

A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones. Huge heaps of slain around the body rise. Dryden.

A semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of a room. The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central pavilion. London Academy.

A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus siccus; an herbarium. Steele.

A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged. Gray.

nomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension.

A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.

e. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron. Book of Homilies. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; -- both books being certified to contain a "godly and wholesom…

A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.