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mmand nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker.

uman beings as distinct from things. Every man so termed by way of personal difference. Hooker.

ction, which has been induced. If the general persuasion of all men does so account it. Hooker. My firm persuasion is, at least sometimes, That Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention. Cowper.

Regarding; concerning; belonging; pertaining. [R.] "Pertinent unto faith." Hooker.

one's mind to, to speak plainly, bluntly, or severely to (another). Tackeray. -- Piece broker, one who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to sell again. -- Piece goods, goods usually sold by pieces or fixed portions, as shirtings, calicoes, sheetings, and the like.

to receive in pawn, as a pawnbroker does. [Obs.]

y or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform. "The platform of Geneva." Hooker.

A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, or red-headed, widgeon.

Capable of poisoning; poisonous. [Obs.] "Poisonable heresies." Tooker.

the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole. Blackstone. Hooker.

e comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain. Homilies are plain popular instructions. Hooker.

ws. In laws, that which is natural bindeth universally; that which is positive, not so. Hooker.

being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing. "All possibility of error." Hooker. "Latent possibilities of excellence." Johnson.

A religious discourse. [Obs.] Hooker.

e kind; an authoritative example. Examples for cases can but direct as precedents only. Hooker.

things which are most precious are neglected only because the value of them lieth hid. Hooker.

An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a preconception. Hooker.

Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental. Hooker. His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs. Clarendon. -- Prej`u*di"cial*ly, adv. -- Prej`u*di"cial*ness, n.

esiastical dignitaries. "Divers of the reverend prelacy, and other most judicious men." Hooker.

reated for preservation or examination as a specimen. (c) Something prepared for use in cookery. I wish the chemists had been more sparing who magnify their preparations. Sir T. Browne. In the preparations of cookery, the most volatile parts of vegetables are destroyed. Arbuthnot.