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r restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary. He hath compassed the waters with bounds. Job xxvi. 10. On earth's remotest bounds. Campbell. And mete the bounds of hate and love. Tennyson. To keep within bounds, not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion.

One who cheats. All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc. Pope.

To bring forth a calf. "Their cow calveth." Job xxi. 10.

e of dynasty. Hallam. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Job xiv. 14.

Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore. [Written also chare.] [Eng.] When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday. Shak.

To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.

ms to give him chastesement! Shak. I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more. Job xxxiv. 31.

A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]

y; hence, the human body as formed from such particles. I also am formed out of the clay. Job xxxiii. 6. The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover. Byron. Bowlder clay. See under Bowlder. -- Brick clay, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned. -- C…

A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. [U. S.] Job's comforter, a boil. [Colloq.]

o comprehend the question. W. Irwing. Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend. Job. xxxvii. 5.

hy, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Shak. Wilt thou condemn him that is most just Job xxxiv. 17.

Plot; action; construction; manner of development. The book of Job, in conduct and diction. Macaulay. Conduct money (Naut.), a portion of a seaman's wages retained till the end of his engagement, and paid over only if his conduct has been satisfactory.

With inward consolations recompensed. Milton. Are the consolations of God small with thee Job xv. 11.

ls, raised and met, Are at the duke's already. Shak. With kings and consuls of the earth. Job. iii. 14 (Douay Ver. )

. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.

ting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.

darkenhis foresight. Bacon. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge Job. xxxviii. 2.

An umpire or arbiter; a mediator. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us. Job ix. 33.

of God. -- The gates of death, the grave. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee Job xxxviii. 17. -- The second death, condemnation to eternal separation from God. Rev. ii. 11. -- To be the death of, to be the cause of death to; to make die. "It was one who should be the death of both his parents." Milton.…