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The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness. Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. South.

A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.

Not believed; disbelieved.

One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic.

A low shrub; a woody plant of low stature.

A sleeve of an under-garment; a sleeve worn under another,

Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.

Not prevented or hindered; as, unprevented sorrows. Shak.

To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like.

Not furnished with a revenue. [R.] Milton.

Absence or lack of reverence; irreverence. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Not reverend.

Irreverent. [R.] Shak.

Irreverently. [R.] B. Jonson.

To render other than seven; to make to be no longer seven. [Obs. & R.] "To unseven the sacraments of the church of Rome." Fuller.

The level formed by the surface of still water.

Any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus Trachinus, of the family Trachinidæ. They have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds.

Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively. Whatever fortune stays from his word. Shak. Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yi…

Whatever. "In whatsoever shape he lurk." Milton. Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. Gen. xxxi. 16.

Whencesoever. [R.]