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Not secret; not close; not trusty; indiscreet. [Obs.] "We are unsecret to ourselves." Shak.

Froward; perverse. "Save yourselves from this untoward generation." Acts ii. 40.

th up. Ps. lxxxviii. 15. Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. Chaucer. We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference. Atterbury.

The persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; -- the objective case of we. See We. "Tell us a tale." Chaucer. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11.

Ourselves. [Obs.] Wyclif. Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value. [Obs.] Some value themselves to their country by jealousies of the crown. Sir W. Temple.

They have a cæcal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.

The power possessed by living organisms, both animal and vegetable, of adapting themselves to modifications or changes in their environment, thus possibly giving rise to ultimate variation of structure or function.

onal Education and is secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and the trustees.

To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. [R.] When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton.

imagination. Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. South.

spring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous. Viviparous fish. (Zoöl.) See Embiotocoid. -- Viviparous shell (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of operculated fresh-water gastr…

them who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous Dryden.

ry; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware. [Obs.] And wareless of the evil That by themselves unto themselves is wrought. Spenser.

ng doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail. Shak. The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail. Prescott.

m any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything. "Wean them from themselves." Shak. The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life. Swift.

Having upright intentions or honorable purposes. Dutchmen who had sold themselves to France, as the wellintentioned party. Macaulay.

nd the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves. South. [He] throws his steep flight in many an aëry wheel. Milton. A wheel within a wheel, or Wheels within wheels, a complication of circumstances, motives, etc. -- Balance wheel. See in the Vocab. -- Bevel wheel, Brake…

Whereas; while [Obs.] Whenas, if they would inquire into themselves, they would find no such matter. Barrow.

To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully. They employed themselves wholly in domestic life. Addison.