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A wresting from the true meaning. Bp. Wren.

its of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share. True justice unto people to divide. Spenser. Ye shall divide the land by lot. Num. xxxiii. 54.

An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.

That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. "The doctrine of gravitation." I. Watts. A…

Inhuman; cruel. Shak.

A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.

A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.

ings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay. Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. Bouvier. Wharton'…

and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.

decision. [Obs.] And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom. Fairfax.

To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false. What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double. J. Webster.

itle, species, and the like. Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. Shak. Is it a great cruelty to expel from our abode the enemy of our peace, or even the doubtful friend [i. e., one as to whose sincerity there may be doubts] Bancroft.

A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.] The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. Percival.

Harshness; cruelty. Cockeram.

naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. Pope. Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please. Dryden. At ease, free from pain, trouble, or anxiety. "His soul shall dwell at ease." Ps. xxv…

e; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.

Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher.

Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent. -- n.

system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.

To imbrue; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Spenser.