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A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.

rangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure. Horace confines himself strictly to one sort of verse, or stanza, in every ode. Dryden.

bs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.] Lydgate. In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer.

themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission. Spenser. He will steal himself into a man's favor. Shak.

In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.

One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.

ppliant behavior; meekness; resignation. In all submission and humility York doth present himself unto your highness. Shak. No duty in religion is more justly required by God . . . than a perfect submission to his will in all things. Sir W. Temple.

duces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence. His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province. Addison.

ally, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne. You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark. Shak. The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession. Macaulay.

as, to sugar reproof. With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself. Shak.

One who seeks for things which gratify merely himself; a selfish person; a selfist. [R.] Whitlock.

gard," in few words sums up the moral of this fable. L'Estrange. He sums their virtues in himself alone. Dryden.

e; to give a surname to. Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. Isa. xliv. 5. And Simon he surnamed Peter. Mark iii. 16.

A servant. [Obs.] Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. Chaucer.

se of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers. J. R. Green. Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory. Sir W. Hamilton.

f his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.…

, n. The sacrament is a representation of Christ's death by such symbolical actions as he himself appointed. Jer. Taylor. Symbolical delivery (Law), the delivery of property sold by delivering something else as a symbol, token, or representative of it. Bouvier. Chitty. -- Symbolical philosophy, the philosophy expresse…

ent persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.…

e toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining table- lands To which our God himself is moon and sun. Tennyson.

A person who attaches himself to another against the will of the latter; a hanger-on.