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worth! Shak. I will deliver you, in ready coin, The full and dear'st esteem of what you crave. J. Webster.

th the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance. The Apostles, so far as they evangelized, might claim the tittle though there were many evangelists who were not Apistles. Plumptre.…

To plow up; also, to engrave; to write. [Obs.] Blount.

A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

Serving to heat; warming. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.

The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter. Fairholt.

An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.

The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage. [Obs.] This ravenous expiation of the state. Daniel.

An expeller. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A swelling or rising. [R.] Cotgrave.

To Confront impudently; to bully. I will neither be facednor braved. Shak.

inguished degree; greatly; splendidly. Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel. Shak.

To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden. Milton.

icoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat. We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things. Shak.

e a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column.

against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. Pope. Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams. B. Taylor.

corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.

To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope. Johnson.

Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous. While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. Shak.