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A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

e act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity. Berke.

Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. Darwin.

them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.

; tendency to one point. The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil. Berkeley.

es; a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.

To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume. [Obs.] Dr. R. Clerke.

ourse to Ilium's well known shore. Dennham. Westward the course of empire takes its way. Berkeley.

Act of tasting; a slight trial. [Obs.] Berkeley.

One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke (1637).

To free from wrangling or litigation. [Obs.] Berkeley.

past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley. The drama and contrivances of God's providence. Sharp.

To confuse; to entangle. I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.

would not equal the mind that he found in himself to the infinite and incomprehensible. Berkeley.

The act of eventilating; discussion. [Obs.] Bp. Berkely.

d with of. If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be attributed to their size. Berke.

Fluxional. Berkeley.

One skilled in fluxions. Berkeley.

basis; plan; -- used only in the singular. Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason. Berkeley.