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To give strength or support to; to confirm. [Obs.] Fuller.

, who had the honor, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy. Fuller.

Roomy; spacious. [Obs.] Fuller.

the more rotundity of the number and grace of the matter, it passeth for a full thousand. Fuller. A boldness and rotundity of speech. Hawthorne.

erless king. [R.] there were at this time two other royalets, as only kings by his leave. Fuller.

To administer the sacraments. [R.] Both to preach and sacramentize. Fuller.

The faith or system of the Sandemanians. A. Fuller.

ty; scarcely; hardly. [Obs.] Bacon. So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs. Fuller.

A fire causing alarm. [Obs.] Fuller.

By scent. [R.] Fuller.

ained that, to swell a number the nonconformists did not choose, but scrape, subscribers. Fuller.

n is to draw contracts or prepare writings. Shak. The writer better scrivener than clerk. Fuller.

ce. We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may. Fuller. Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship. South.

o imbue; to tinge or taint. "Who by his tutor being seasoned with the love of the truth." Fuller. Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. Jer. Taylor.

R.] In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill. Fuller. Sin is seconded with sin. South.

Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents. [R.] Fuller.

Lasting seven years; continuing seven years. "Septenary penance." Fuller.

this century sets with little mirth, and the next is likely to arise with more mourning. Fuller.

Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs. [Obs.] Fuller's earth left a thick settlement. Mortimer.

The scarf of a turban. [Obs.] Fuller.