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A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character §, often used to denote such a division. It is hardly possible to give a distinct view of his several arguments in distinct sections. Locke.…

ender eye of pitiful day. Shak. Gold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel. Chapman.

Claw; talon. [Obs.] Chapman.

ender quiet; to still; to calm; to compose. God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake. Chapman. Hoping that sleep might settle his brains. Bunyan.

Poured water from a great and golden ewer, That from their hands to a silver caldron ran. Chapman.

A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." Chapman.

Chaparajos. [Western U. S.]

in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard. The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove. Chapman.

A shuttle. [Obs.] Chapman.

To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place. Chapman.

A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot. Here no shots are where all shares be. Chapman. A man is never . . . welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome." Shak.

otherwise a mere clog on them. [Old Slang] Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies. Chapman.

ave or den; also, a vault or crypt. [Obs.] The shroud to which he won His fair-eyed oxen. Chapman. A vault, or shroud, as under a church. Withals.

Of or pertaining to Pope Sixtus. Sistine chapel, a chapel in the Vatican at Rome, built by Pope Sixtus IV., and decorated with frescoes by Michael Angelo and others.

ne in reading; to skip a lesson. They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters. Bp. Burnet.

Sleek; smooth. "Both slick and dainty." Chapman.

A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery. [Eng.]

ut; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him. Chapman. He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. Shak. Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. Addison.

To disturb; to disquiet; -- a Latinism rarely used. Hath any ill solicited thine ears Chapman. But anxious fears solicit my weak breast. Dryden.

To black or foul with soot. [R.] Sootied with noisome smoke. Chapman.