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an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise obloges himself to full retaliation. Calamy.

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively. He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest. Sir P. Sidney. As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray. Sir J. Davies.

To call back to mind; to recollect. [Obs.] A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience. South.

armony of language. "Railing rhymes." Daniel. A ryme I learned long ago. Chaucer. He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime. Milton.

Bill. -- By right, By rights, or By good rights, rightly; properly; correctly. He should himself use it by right. Chaucer. I should have been a woman by right. Shak. -- Divine right, or Divine right of kings, a name given to the patriarchal theory of government, especially to the doctrine that no misconduct and no dis…

f Pressiroster. -- Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthless. -- Ring fence. See under Fence. -- Ring finger, the third finger of the left hand, or the next the little finger, on which the ring is placed in ma…

they run a great while in Rome. Sir W. Temple. Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himself. Knolle

Shooting out up; springing; projecting. He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. Burke.

to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way. Bunyan.

ly and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay.

ere Satan's seat is. Rev. ii. 13. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. Bacon. A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. Macaulay.

One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.

One who contrives to give himself vexation. [Archaic.] Sir P. Sidney.

To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion. He seesaws himself to and fro. Ld. Lytton.

One who destroys himself; a suicide.

One who examines himself; one given to self-examination. The humiliated self-examinant feels that there is evil in our nature as well as good. Coleridge.

Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.

One who excuses or justifies himself. J. M. Mason.

That partiality to himself by which a man overrates his own worth when compared with others. Kames.

One who torments himself.