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That which is cut or torn off; a piece. Hooker.

; as, a side issue; a side view or remark. The law hath no side respect to their persons. Hooker.

ine critically or minutely; to scrutinize. Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable. Hooker. Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee. Milton. Let him but narrowly sift his ideas. I. Taylor. To sift out, to search out with care, as if by sifting.

ially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel. The Rev. Thomas Hooker of Chelmsford, in Essex, was silenced for nonconformity. B. Trumbull.

t now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other. Hooker. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Shak.

To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] An agent singling itself from consorts. Hooker.

nction. No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop]. Hooker. Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation. Bp. Pearson.

particular art. [Obs.] Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful. Hooker.

ed in one body or company; associable. [R.] They are sociable parts united into one body. Hooker.

To mend; to patch up. "To solder up a broken cause." Hooker.

legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker.

A sophist. See Sophist. [Obs.] Hooker.

. Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them. Hooker. I'll deceive you in another sort. Shak. To Adam in what sort Shall I appear Milton. I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style. Dryden.

Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount. We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good. Hooker.

f attention; a specialty. On these two general heads all other specialities are depedent. Hooker. Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow- mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his speciality.…

Given to speculation; contemplative. The mind of man being by nature speculative. Hooker.

Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. [R.] Hooker.

To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of. Hooker.

hip and conduct; regularity; rule. [Obs.] They of Galatia [were] much more out of square. Hooker. I have not kept my square. Shak.

ir stains. Dryden. Our opinion . . . is, I trust, without any blemish or stain of heresy. Hooker.