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viction, which has been induced. If the general persuasion of all men does so account it. Hooker. My firm persuasion is, at least sometimes, That Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention. Cowper.

Regarding; concerning; belonging; pertaining. [R.] "Pertinent unto faith." Hooker.

A hook or pin on which a rudder hangs and turns.

icy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform. "The platform of Geneva." Hooker.

To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it. To play off, to display; to show; to put in exercise; as, to play off tricks. -- To play one's cards, to manage one's means or opportunities; to contrive. -- Played out, tired out; exhausted; at the end of one's resources. [Colloq.]

To play truant, or "hooky". [Scot.]

h the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole. Blackstone. Hooker.

be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain. Homilies are plain popular instructions. Hooker.

laws. In laws, that which is natural bindeth universally; that which is positive, not so. Hooker.

f being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing. "All possibility of error." Hooker. "Latent possibilities of excellence." Johnson.

eese. See under Cottage. -- Pot companion, a companion in drinking. -- Pot hanger, a pothook. -- Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. -- Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a…

A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A religious discourse. [Obs.] Hooker.

eration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3. Hook.

ame kind; an authoritative example. Examples for cases can but direct as precedents only. Hooker.

he leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir. Hook.

ny things which are most precious are neglected only because the value of them lieth hid. Hooker.

An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a preconception. Hooker.

Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental. Hooker. His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs. Clarendon. -- Prej`u*di"cial*ly, adv. -- Prej`u*di"cial*ness, n.

clesiastical dignitaries. "Divers of the reverend prelacy, and other most judicious men." Hooker.