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A burden; an obligation. Onus probandi ( Etym: [L.], obligation to furnish evidence to prove a thing; the burden of proof.

Approved; conventional. He saluted me on both cheeks in the orthodox manner. H. R. Haweis.

A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.

A collector or writer of proverbs. [R.]

A popular maxim, adage, or proverb. [Obs.]

To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.

e fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat. "A peck of provender." Shak.

] That pedetentous pace and pedetentous mind in which it behooves the wise and virtuous improver to walk. Sydney Smith.

Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure. South.

ble and Common Prayer Book in the vulgar tongue, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language. Swift.

lfer. "To keep my hands from picking and stealing." Book of Com. Prayer. To pick up, to improve by degrees; as, he is picking up in health or business. [Colloq. U.S.]

etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.

established; as, the point of an anecdote. "Here lies the point." Shak. They will hardly prove his point. Arbuthnot.

esources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.

Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a popular administration.

To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.

precipitates her steps. Glover. If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous. Bacon.

To approve by preconization.

A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. The premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served. Shak.

o take for granted; to infer; to suppose. Every man is to be presumed innocent till he is proved to be guilty. Blackstone. What rests but that the mortal sentence pass, . . . Which he presumes already vain and void, Because not yet inflicted Milton.