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Peninsula. [Obs.] Knolles.

A half man. [R.] Knolles.

disband an army. They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling. Knolles.

also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. H. Spencer.

To send off with speed; to dispatch. [Obs.] Knolles. Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law, DoSouthey.

he direction of motion. Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage. Knolles.

, to induct into office, as a bishop. There openly enthronized as the very elected king. Knolles.

o make an earnest petition or request. The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men. Knolles.

will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Shak. Feeding him with the hope of liberty. Knolles.

A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size. Knolles.

night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning. Knolles.

Unskilled; raw. [Colloq.] "Fresh-water soldiers." Knolles.

nt space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass. Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap. Knolles. It would make a great gap in your own honor. Shak. Gap lathe (Mach.), a turning lathe with a deep notch in the bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter. -- To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the…

Dover Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. Shak. Opening a gate for a long war. Knolles.

ut from this land. Gen. xxxi. 13. He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of Mega. Knolles.

of favor; to honor. He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court. Knolles.

to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue. Winter began to grow fast on. Knolles. Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus. Shak.

l, by thy revenging hand, at once receive the just guerdon of all his former villainies. Knolles.

direction; management; -- usually in the plural. "Receiving in hand one year's tribute." Knolles. Albinus . . . found means to keep in his hands the goverment of Britain. Milton.

ard; in various directions. "Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither." Knolles.