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e when I make it, I keep it; I don't stand shill-I-shall-I then; if I say 't, I'll do 't. Congreve.

To make a sign upon; to mark with a sign. We receive this child into the congregation of Christ's flock, and do sign him with the sign of the cross. Bk. of Com Prayer.

To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress.

A ship boy. [Obs.] Congreve.

ression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person. Congreve. "A ship of fools," he sneered. Tennyson.

Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.

An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax. A barbarism may be in one word; a solecism must be of more. Johnson.

A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj. [India]

s. Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. Congreve. Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing. Byron.

gned for a particular purpose, occasion, or person; as, a special act of Parliament or of Congress; a special sermon.

A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.

upture; to rend; to tear asunder. A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water. Boyle.

them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. Congreve.

, as distinguished from doors, sashes, etc. -- Standing order (Eccl.), the denomination (Congregiational) established by law; -- a term formerly used in Connecticut. See also under Order. -- Standing part. (Naut.) (a) That part of a tackle which is made fast to a block, point, or other object. (b) That part of a rope…

he bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

Tim. vi. 4. Thus gods contended -- noble strife -Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve.

or thing; to exchange. Some few verses are inserted or substituted in the room of others. Congreve.

s or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12. Take ye the sum of all the congregation. Num. i. 2.

An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.

To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. Chaucer.