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A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc.

Having the power to beget; generative. Sir M. Hale.

Attentive deliberation. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale.

Propagation by seed. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

tions to be done, and due means, order, seasons, and method of doing or not doing. Sir M. Hale. Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends. Whewell.

Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent. [Obs.] " A puisne date to eternity." Sir M. Hale.

rmounted with a large crockery crate. Judd. They did not take out the pungs to-day. E. E. Hale.

The use and application of fire in science and the arts. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush. The whales Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed. Waller.

A bed of shale over the seam. Raymond.

der; a class. The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences. Sir M. Hale.

of the motion of the balance in a wheel watch is by the motion of the next wheel. Sir M. Hale. This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the church was called "catholic." Bp. Pearson. Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vic…

; seclusion; privacy. In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence. Sir M. Hale. Good verse recess and solitude requires. Dryden.

're sure enough. Shak. Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die. Hales.

A ruler or governor.[R.] God is the supreme rector of the world. Sir M. Hale.

A reductive agent. Sir M. Hale.

apor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale. Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. Spenser. I found me laid In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. Milton. The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. Macualay.…

t of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. Sir M. Hale.

quet. Johnson. Cowper. Two baked custards were produced as additions to the regale. E. E. Hale.