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work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth.

or practicing astrology. "Astrologi learning." Hudibras. "Astrological prognostication." Cudworth. -- As`tro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

To discourse, argue, or act as an atheist. [R.] -- A"the*i`zer, n. Cudworth.

The doctrine of atoms. Cudworth.

ation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. By autopsy and experiment. Cudworth.

A cudgel. [Obs.] Shak.

ing at bandy. Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without. Cudworth.

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks. Shak.

To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. Pepys.

A blow with a stick or cudgel.

A staff or cudgel. [Obs.] "To fight with blunt bastons." Holland.

To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. Holland.

A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyræna spet). See Barracuda.

." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.

To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.

To convert into, or make, good. To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. Cudworth.

e; in broken language. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.

ward performance; a botch; a gross blunder. Those errors and bungles which are committed. Cudworth.

ilocks (Chrysocoma linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.

The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.