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To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith. The just shall live by faith. Gal. iii. ll.

The divine Word; Christ.

To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of. Bacon.

To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. Gray.

The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.

of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. And old cloak makes a new jerkin. Shak.

od supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food. Ex. xvi. 15.

One who is skilled in mantology; a diviner. [R.]

To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare by the use of marinade.

A kind of game at cards played by several persons. Matrimony vine (Bot.), a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family. Gray.

xture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms. [Written also mauvine.]

w yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce.

Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness. [Obs.] "Hail, divinest Melancholy !" Milton.

etle (Zoöl.), a small leaf beetle (Diabrotiea vittata), which damages the leaves of melon vines. -- Melon cactus, Melon thistle. (a) (Bot.) A genus of cactaceous plants (Melocactus) having a fleshy and usually globose stem with the surface divided into spiny longitudinal ridges, and bearing at the top a prickly and wo…

der, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear. My soul melteth for heaviness. Ps. cxix. 28. Melting with tenderness and kind compassion. Shak.

A sauce of vinegar and sugar flavored with spearmint leaves.

irour of all courtesy. Chaucer. O goddess, heavenly bright, Mirror of grace and majesty divine. Spenser.

To forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise. By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers. Shak.

A patron deity or presiding genius. Come, thou, monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus. Shak.

One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite nature. Also used adjectively.