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To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun. The art of gunning was but little practiced. Goldsmith.

One who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises; the manager of a gymnasium; an athlete.

The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery.

Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior. A man of very shy, re…

According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin. It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings. Buckminster.

Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson.

The act or practice of making trivial distinctions. The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading. Charles Sumner.

object of a screen. The name alludes to the fact that this process was the first that was practically successful in reproducing the half tones of the photograph.

distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway. Halfway covenant, a practice among the Congregational churches of New England, between 1657 and 1662, of permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the Lord's S…

To manage; to control; to practice skill upon. You shall see how I will handle her. Shak.

th of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.

To play the harlot; to practice lewdness. Milton.

The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness. Dryden.

The art or practices of haruspices. See Aruspicy.

To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.] That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. Chaucer. Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. Ascham.

to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry. A falconer Henry is, when Emma hawks. Prior.

To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.

The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying. [R.]