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the dead which were in them. Rev. xx. 13 (Rev. Ver. ). Neither was he left in Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. Acts ii. 31 (Rev. Ver.). And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments. Luke xvi.23 (Rev. Ver.).

Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled. But on both did haggish age steal on. Shak.

d to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides. -- n.

style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature. I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand. Shak. Some writs require a judge's hand. Burril.

r with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped.

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

he mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. Men who had lost both head and heart. Macaulay.

Discontent; secret enmity. Swift. The transaction did not fail to leave heartburnings. Palfrey.

A look or expression of heading. [R.] He did it with a serious mind; a heed Was in his countenance. Shak.

esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1).

ited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

evil, and hideth himself." Prov. xxii. 3. -- To hide the face, to withdraw favor. "Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled." Ps. xxx. 7. -- To hide the face from. (a) To overlook; to pardon. "Hide thy face from my sins." Ps. li. 9. (b) To withdraw favor from; to be displeased with.

The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion. Abp Potter.

[Obs.] But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall. Spenser.

e been dictated by Hippocrates to his disciples. Such an oath is still administered to candidates for graduation in medicine.

are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete. No comfortable star did lend his light. Shak. Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root Shak.

To condemn or express contempt for by hissing. If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them. Shak. Malcolm. What is the newest grief Ros. That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker. Shak.

To lay up a store or hoard, as of money. To hoard for those whom he did breed. Spenser.

ng, or consistent with, honor. The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him. Shak. Why did I not more honorably starve Dryden.

Quite mad; -- raving crazy. Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after Gray.