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To answer in Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. Gen. xviii. 15.

or of winter. From you unclouded depth above. Keble. The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5.

es derived to that vile witch's share. Spenser. Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah. Jer. Taylor.

ate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11. And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among. Tennyson.

ry of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest. A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. Sir W. Jones. They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. Burke.

Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.

bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.

der void or of no effect. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul Isaiah xiv. 27.

. More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left. Jonah iv. 11.

mmond. The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike. Hannah More. We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox. J. Morley. His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories. A. W. Ward.

To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie. Dryden.

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

with language in its fullest sense." Earle. "What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah 2 Sam. xvi. 10.

Up, or ahead, as many holes as remain to be played; -- said of a player or side.

etc. The drew out the staves of the ark. 2 Chron. v. 9. Draw thee waters for the siege. Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman.

A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.

A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaëthon flavirostris.

he writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist. S. Davidson.

duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy. Jonathan . . . and Jahaziah . . . were employed about this matter. Ezra x. 15. Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe. Dryden. To employ one's self, to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self.…

e element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist. The empyrean rung With hallelujahs. Milton.