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Favoring slavery. -- n.

To favor; to render successful. "Prosper thou our handiwork." Bk. of Common Prayer. All things concur toprosper our design. Dryden.

Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.

One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.

Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence." Feltham. Protective coloring (Zoöl.), coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff (Polit. Econ.), a tariff designed to secure protection (see Protection,…

he pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed law and arguments for and against it by those favoring and opposing it, respectively.

To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.

To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery. One poor retiring minute . . . Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends. Shak. A world who would not purchase with a bruise Milton.

Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth. "He was born in the purple." Gibbon.

To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.

Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.

servitude, called also Predial servitude (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. Erskine. Bouvier.

; to make return for; to give in return; to unterchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors. Cowper.

The person in whose favor a recognizance is made. [Written also recognisee.] Blackstone.

To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body. Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, who…

That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations.

A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple. Mortimer.

view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak.

organized for the comission of violent crimes. [U.S.] A few stood neutral, or declared in favor of the Regulators. Bancroft.

To insure, as life or property, in favor of one who has taken an inssurance risk upon it. The innsurer may cause the property insured to be reinsured by other persons. Walsh.