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h of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.

To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.

The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Ps. lxxiii. 24.

Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood.

Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead.

Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue. -- God"like`ness, n.

One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.

The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. And if by grace, then is it no more of works. Rom. xi. 6. My grace is sufficicnt for thee. 2 Cor. xii. 9. Where si…

Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton.

Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.

An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.

A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.

The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.

e who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.

A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.

An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter. [Obs. or Local] Holland.

Fermented wort used for making vinegar. Gyle tan (Brewing), a large vat in which wort ferments.

A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett. Hammock nettings (Naut.), formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.