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stility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy. Clarendon. Weak we are, and can not shun pursuit. Shak.

The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness. The badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. Shak. It is obvious to distinguished between an act of . . . pusillanimity and an act of great modesty or humility. South.

Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince.

ein of ore which is productive, not barren. -- Quick vinegar, vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material. -- Quick water, quicksilver water. -- Quick with child, pregnant with a living child.

ch raveled interests has he not untied Waller. The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses! Jer. Taylor.

Sore, as if by being galled. And all his sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment. Spenser.

Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child. H. Taylor. -- n.

Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.

To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax. His knees relax with toil. Pope.

Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.

izing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin.

Resembling a rush; weak.

an acid reaction; thus, copper sulphate, which is composed of a strong acid united with a weak base, is an acid salt in this sense, though theoretically it is a neutral salt. -- Alkaline salt (Chem.), a salt which gives an alkaline reaction, as sodium carbonate. -- Amphid salt (Old Chem.), a salt of the oxy type, for…

A colorless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. Ring out the grief that saps the mind. Tennyson.

A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop. [Low]

Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble. When he had passed this weak and sapy age. Hayward.

In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. [Obs.] Bacon. So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs. Fuller.

rom a fear of offending or of doing wrong. Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous. Hooker.

fix. [Obs.] As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. Spenser.