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To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.

uit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind. It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that invention. Dryden.

follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Tennyson.

The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill. Tusser.

One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. Boyle.

One skilled in hydrology.

One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics. [R.]

One skilled in hygiena; a hygienist.

A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.

us), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.

One skilled in ichthyotomy.

A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous. Did I for this take pains to teach Our zealous ignorants to preach Denham.

To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle.

To lay color on canvas by uniting them skillfully together. [R.] Cf. Impasto.

Faultless; blameless; innocent. South. An innocent and incupable piece of ignorance. Killingbeck.

Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot.

A searcher; an explorer; an investigator. [Obs.] Searched into by such skillful indagators of nature. Boyle.

Not having experience unskilled. "Inexperienced youth." Cowper.

Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice. Akenside.

Want of expertness or skill.