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A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe. Mozley & W.

ock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.

hence, to drink the health of; to toast. Pledge me, my friend, and drink till thou be'st wise. Cowley.

less than a majority. See Majority. Take the plurality of the world, and they are neither wise nor good. L'Estrange.

gement; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons. Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy. Shak.

Politic; wise; also, artful. [Obs.] Sterne. Political economy, that branch of political science or philosophy which treats of the sources, and methods of production and preservation, of the material wealth and prosperity of nations.

To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.] Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. Spenser.

A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade. Wiseman.

Porosity. Wiseman.

Resembling the leek in color; greenish. [R.] "Porraceous vomiting." Wiseman.

ich denotes simple quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as, wise, noble. -- Positive electricity (Elec), the kind of electricity which is developed when glass is rubbed with silk, or which appears at that pole of a voltaic battery attached to the plate that is not attacked by the exciting…

See Poach, to cook. [Obs.] Wiseman.

osed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned. Counter potent (Her.), a fur differing from potent in the arrangement of the patches.

By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject.

tuous conduct. A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise. Buckminster.

open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end. Wiseman.

moved on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there.

confess publicly; to own or admit freely. "Hear me profess sincerely." Shak. The best and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. Milton.

A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.

emselves in the contact of substances with the organs of taste, touch, and smell, or otherwise affect the living organism, as in the manner of medicines and poisons.