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Entrance; entrance way; manner of entering; beginning. "The goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof." Ezek. xliii. 11

counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for. The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior.

The entry of such adjuornment and the grounds thereof on the record.

t change of countries cannot change my state. Stirling. Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account Milton.

icate; to utter; to speak; to impart. Till he these words to him deliver might. Spenser. Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter the perfection. Bacon.

To pay for; to atone for. [Obs.] His sin was dispensed With gold, whereof it was compensed. Gower.

rive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland.

To place at a distance or remotely. I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. Fuller.

practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.

including that previously granted by itself, which authorizes it to appropriate any part thereof to a necessary public use, reasonable compensation being made.

en used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8.

Public report or rumor. The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house. Gen. xlv. 16.

is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment. Stowe.

n. Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage. Shak. The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record. Tennyson.

to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

y; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful. The gain thereof [is better] than fine gold. Prov. iii. 14. A cup of wine that's brisk and fine. Shak. Not only the finest gentleman of his time, but one of the finest scholars. Felton. To soothe the sick bed of so fine a being [Keats]. Lei…

To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast. "Whereof to found their engines." Milton.

ly used in the plural. Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof. Ex. xxiii. 10.

ry going forth of the sanctuary." Ezek. xliv. 5. (b) A limit; a border. "The going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea." Num. xxxiv. 4. -- Going out, or Goings out. (Script.) (a) The utmost extremity or limit. "The border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea." N…

er of a hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University. Mass. Records (1647).