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To keep back or from; to withhold. Detain not the wages of the hireling. Jer. Taylor.

ined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution. So bloodthirsty a determination to obtain convictions. Hallam.

Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system. Devonian age (Geol.), the age next older than the Carboniferous and later than the Silurian; -- called also the Age of fishes. The various strata of this age compose the Devonian formation or system, and include the old red s…

An old game or sport (revived under this name) consisting in whirling on a string, fastened to two sticks, a small somewhat spool- shaped object (called the diabolo) so as to balance it on a string, toss it in the air and catch it, etc.

ties or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned. In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language. Earle. [Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect. Presc…

the hands, etc. Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. Shak.

A false shirt front or bosom.

xpress the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.

A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst. Milton.

Tending to produce thirst. Wright.

Excessive thirst produced by disease.

was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs. Thirlwall.

A discus; a quoit. Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. Pope.

The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).

Giddiness; a whirling sensation in the head; vertigo.

Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct. Alas! his brain was dizzy. Drayton.

One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. V. Knox.

founded by St. Dominic, and chiefly employed in teaching. -- Dominican tertiaries (the third order of St. Dominic). See Tertiary.

ling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the process can be repeated an indefinite number of times. Derived from an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall…

A pannier, or basket. To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. Beau. & Fl.