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r, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose . . . had the names of stations given them. Hooker.

All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartly wish were false. Hooker.

To be angry. [Obs.] Hooker.

ipture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Hooker.

need of direction after what sort our wills and desires may be rightly conformed to His. Hooker.

Same as Hypostasis, 2. Hooker.

ferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories. Hooker.

What may be supped; pottage. [Obs.] Hooker.

advantage. To surrender up that right which otherwise their founders might have in them. Hooker.

To have weight or influence. The example of sundry churches . . . doth sway much. Hooker.

anything concise or short; a particle. Before any syllable of the law of God was written. Hooker. Who dare speak One syllable against him Shak.

a number reckoned or stated. The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by weight. Hooker. And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthornn in the dale. Milton. In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. Carew.

unt. Every error is a stain to the beauty of nature; for which cause it blusheth thereat. Hooker.

ractice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs. "One of the suppressors of Thuggee." J. D. Hooker.

An emotion or affection. A true, natural, and a sensible touch of mercy. Hooker.

Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried. Hooker. The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of spirits. South. Irish touchstone (Min.), basalt, the stone which composes the Giant's Causeway.

. . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt. Hooker. He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel. Dryden.

with pain; severe toil or exertion. As everything of price, so this doth require travail. Hooker.

To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] Hooker.

.] " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.