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scharge of his expenses, and defraying his cost, he allowed him . . . four times as much. Usher.

ch gave rise to the Christian era. In divers ages, . . . divers epochs of time were used. Usher. Great epochs and crises in the kingdom of God. Trench. The acquittal of the bishops was not the only event which makes the 30th of June, 1688, a great epoch in history. Macaulay.

, the decline of the day, or of the sum. In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose. Milton.

The European red-backed shrile (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.

Appropriate to a giant. [Obs.] Usher.

To usher in; to be a harbinger of. "Thus did the star of religious freedom harbinger the day." Bancroft.

ne who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher. [Obs.] [Written also heler.] Usher.

introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in. Shak.

See Usher. B. Jonson.

To obtain by request or entreaty. Usher.

To bring in; to introduce; to usher in. The independent orator inducting himself without further ceremony into the pulpit. Sir W. Scott.

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. [Obs.] Usher.

lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold. [Obs.] Pepys. Milton. Pew opener, an usher in a church. [Eng.] Dickens.

chime of bells. -- To ring the changes upon. See under Change. -- To ring in or out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. Tennyson. -- To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of…

A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.