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The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.

, a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott.

seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite

th (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.

Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle. To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. Shak.

rities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing." Bancroft.

brassicæ), which feeds, in the larval or maggot state, on the roots of the cabbage, often doing much damage to the crop. -- Cabbage head, the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. -- Cabbage palmetto, a species of…

to libel. Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse.

resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing. The capacity of blessing the people. Alex. Hamilton. A cause with such capacities endued. Blackmore.

ed against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.

sa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.

oerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which,…

The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South.

A doing, or preperation, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.

y, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excepted from the prohibition against special rates contained in the Interstate Commerce Act of Feb. 4, 1887 (24 Stat. 379), and in 145 U. S. 263 it was held…

Sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

ce to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.

Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or co

tay. Great plagues, and of long continuence. Deut. xxviii. 59. Patient continuance i well-doing. Rom. ii. 7.