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is said, truly, that the best men otherwise are not always the best in regard of society. Hooker.

boring waters, noted for its vigor and activity, and habit of leaping from the water when hooked.

Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [Obs.] "Overbattle grounds." Hooker.

Too capable. [R.] Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.

An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker.

To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down. Drayton. Hooker.

character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats.

e is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable. Hooker. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. Shak. Hydrostatic paradox. See under Hydrostatic.

n separating a chapel from the body of the church. [Written also paraclose and perclose.] Hook.

der Most, a. -- In good part, as well done; favorably; acceptably; in a friendly manner. Hooker. In ill part, unfavorably; with displeasure. -- In part, in some degree; partly. -- Part and parcel, an essential or constituent portion; -- a reduplicative phrase. Cf. might and main, kith and kin, etc. "She was . . . pa…

of impressions from external agents. Apolinarius, which held even deity itself passible. Hooker.

A line with a row of hooks and bead Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.

Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] Hooker. They stay upon your patience. Shak.

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.

A cant hook having the end of its lever armed with a spike.

a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. Hymns . . . that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself. Hooker.

A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.

The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness. Hooker.

command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker.

human beings as distinct from things. Every man so termed by way of personal difference. Hooker.