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rove; to censure. -- to take to the air, to take off. To take up. (a) To lift; to raise. Hood. (b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank. (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. Ezek. xix. 1. (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to take u…

One of the leather hoods which cover the stirrups of a Mexican saddle.

The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane.

A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are described in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of which are now much discredited.

To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.] So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son. Beau. & Fl.

texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. A. J. Balfour. Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up…

lowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. "The sexton tolled the bell." Hood.

d in an oven, -- used as food for infants. 'T is said that her top-and-bottoms were gilt. Hood.

The hooded merganser. [ Local, U.S. ]

A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. [U.S.] Burrill.

A little trout; a troutling. Hood.

Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to catch these thieves. Shak. Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery…

To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. Shak. It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. Chaucer.

The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity. If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. Shak.

cting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage. The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy. Macaulay.

the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood. This these scoffers twitted the Christian with. Tillotson. Æsop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss. L'Estrange.

omething by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative. The Levitical priesthood was only typical of the Christian. Atterbury.

ignated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends. There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty them understanding. Job xxxii. 8. The power of perception is that which we call the understanding. Perception, which we make the act o…

An unfortunate person. Hood. -- Un*for"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Un*for"tu*nate*ness, n.

To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.