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To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account. [Cant]

A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market. [Cant]

e, or reproach upon. I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things. Hooker. the congregation looked on in silence, the better class scandalized, and the lower orders, some laughing, others backing the soldier or the minister, as their fancy dictated. Sir W. Scott.

citing reprobation; calling out condemnation. Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any. Hooker.

A person whose business is marriage brokage; a marriage broker, esp. among certain Jews.

A scholium. [Obs.] Hooker.

ing against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church. Hooker.

to wound; to score. We have scotched the snake, not killed it. Shak. Scotched collops (Cookery), a dish made of pieces of beef or veal cut thin, or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with onion and other condiments; -- called also Scotch collops. [Written also scotcht collops.]

One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker. [Obs.] ryden.

ng. Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous. Hooker.

public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show. Hooker.

Apprehension; judgment. [Obs.] Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason, to her seeming. Milton.

were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies. Hooker.

Rarely; not often; not frequently. Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. Hooker.

Rareness. Hooker.

The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery.

n are such as prefer . . . that good which is sensual before whatsoever is most divine. Hooker.

to withdraw; -- often used reflexively. When men most sequester themselves from action. Hooker. A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation. Bacon.

They think herein we serve the time, because thereby we either hold or seek preferment. Hooker.

] So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import. Hooker. But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood. Tennyson.