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To cause to follow alternately; to intermingle; to vary; as, to interchange cares with pleasures.

To thrust; to intrude; to between, either for aid or for troubling. What watchful cares do interpose themselves Betwixt your eyes and night Shak. The common Father of mankind seasonably interposed his hand, and rescues miserable man. Woodward.

To converse. [Obs.] Carew.

o cause to exist; to induce. [Obs.] Whosoever introduces habits in children, deserves the care and attention of their governors. Locke.

st; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.

observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.

Want of vigilance; neglect of watching; carelessness.

An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton.

A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.

A mounted peddler of fish; -- called also jouster. [Obs.] Carew.

ties, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence. I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife is deed. Chaucer.

A game; ninepins. [Prov Eng.] Carew.

To care; to desire. [Obs.] I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. Chaucer.

One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.

The office or position of a keeper. Carew.

A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation. His happiness is in his own keeping. South.

To harden, as corn in ripening. [Obs.] Carew.

kill the sale of a book. "To kill thine honor." Shak. Her lively color kill'd with deadly cares. Shak.

kingliest kings are crowned with thorn. G. Massey. Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares. Cowper.

To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees. Shak.