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yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in . . . clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers. Latimer.

To embrace. [Obs.] "They coll and kiss him." Latimer.

To contradict or oppose; to thwart. [Obs.] I was advised not to contrary the king. Bp. Latimer.

. If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [the Neboites] would have converted. Latimer. A red dust which converth into worms. Sandys. The public hope And eye to thee converting. Thomson.

ense now usually written corporeal. Milton. A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are. Latimer. What seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind. Shak.

Thackeray. To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we must do on the armor of God. Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's P…

erson; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.

Like a dove; harmless; innocent. "Joined with dovish simplicity." Latimer.

fillment of a duty. [Obs.] "A just man that endeavoreth himself to leave all wickedness." Latimer.

Espousal. [Obs.] Latimer.

A person of high rank. [Obs.] She's a duchess, a great estate. Latimer. Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee. Mark vi. 21.

show; a bold-faced person. [Obs.] There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers. Latimer.

[Obs.] If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted. Latimer.

s countenance or support; an abettor. [Obs.] The king and the fautors of his proceedings. Latimer.

un about; to frisk; to whisk. [Obs.] He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions. Latimer.

of civility; to leer. [Obs.] Grinning and fleering as though they went to a bear baiting. Latimer.

A sycophant. [Obs. & Humorous.] "Flatterers and flibbergibs." Latimer.

Foxlike. [Obs.] "Foxly craft." Latimer.

Eng.] Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. Latimer. Bever gear. See Bevel gear. -- Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stro…

A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan. [Obs.] Latimer. The persecution was carried on against the gospelers with much fierceness by those of the Roman persuasion. Strype.