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ourse or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course. Shak.

Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.

trenching on the prerogative of the crown. We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children. Locke.

n or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.

intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as an invective against tyranny. The world will be able to judge of his [Junius'] motives for writing such famous invectives. Sir W. Draper.…

To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected. My mouth hath itched all this long day. Chaucer.

Infected with the itch, or with an itching sensation. Cowper.

s country. Smalridge. -- To lay one's self open to, to expose one's self to, as to an accusation. -- To lay open, to open; to uncover; to expose; to reveal. -- To lay over, to spread over; to cover. -- To lay out. (a) To expend. Macaulay. (b) To display; to discover.

est than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.

According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses

To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig.

To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.

Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up. [Colloq.]

taining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Johnson.

The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery. What livery is, we by common use in England know well enough, namely, that is, allowance of horse meat, as to keep horses at livery, the which word, I guess, is derived of livering or delivering forth their nightly…

A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

A temporary cessation of storm or confusion.

Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman. Spelman.

A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant). Spelman.

holly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. Brande & C.