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s of others; a sponger. -- Trencher mate, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. Hooker.

r trivial amusements. They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us. Hooker. To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's feelings, or with sacred things.

h his complaint took a favorable turn. Macaulay. The turns and varieties of all passions. Hooker. Too well the turns of mortal chance I know. Pope.

The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage. Hooker.

Incongruous; inconsistent. "A thing unconsonant.' Hooker.

Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker.

Inculpable; not blameworthy. [R.] Hooker.

take effect sometimes under, and sometimes above, the natural proportion of their virtue. Hooker. There are several hundred parishes in England under twenty pounds a year. Swift. It was too great an honor for any man under a duke. Addison.

Ruin. "The utter undoing of some." Hooker.

nt. The only doubt is . . . how far churches are bound to be uniform in their ceremonies. Hooker. Uniform matter, that which is all of the same kind and texture; homogenous matter. -- Uniform motion, the motion of a body when it passes over equal spaces in equal times; equable motion. Hutton.

Not laid or placed; not fixed. Hooker.

Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means. Hooker.

exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker.

Impartial. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson. -- Un*par"tial*ly, adv. [Obs.] Hooker.

Not read or perused; as, an unread book. Hooker.

Insatiable. [Obs.] Hooker. -- Un*sa"ti*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Un*sa"ti*a*bly, adv. [Obs.]

Insufferable. [Obs.] Hooker. -- Un*suf"fer*a*bly, adv. [Obs.]

Insufficiency. [Obs.] Hooker.

To disentangle. [Obs.] Hooker.

rd. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.