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since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. Whately.

ning a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates. -- Hollow root. (Bot.) See Moschatel. -- Hollow square. See Square. -- Hollow ware, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.

strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual. Whately. That individuals die, his will ordains. Dryden.

nt of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads. Whately. An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. Sir W. Hamilton. By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers. Shak.

the parents, but never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make proselytes of them. Whately.

To congratulate. [Oxford Univ. Cant] Whately.

misnomer, called parliamentary "reforms". Burke. The word "synonym" is fact a misnomer. Whatel

tness; extent. [Obs. or Colloq.] The quantity and muchness of time which it filcheth. W. Whately. Much of a muchness, much the same. [Colloq.] "Men's men; gentle or simple, they 're much of muchness." G. Eliot.

Premise. Whately. I. Watts

ofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.

ot hear it. Waterland. At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton. Bain.

Rule is absolutely right, and is called right simply without relation to a special end. Whately.

Half logical; partly logical; said of fallacies. Whately.

e. A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness. Whately.

en of a servitude or an easement is imposed. Cf. Dominant estate, under Dominant. Gale & Whately.

One of several things signified by a common term. Whately.

a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. Whately. -- Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. -- Singular term (Logic), a term which…

Staidness. [Archaic] W. Whately.

A subaltern proposition. Whately.

A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.