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Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural.

e; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street. Few extend their thoughts toward universal knowledge'. Locke.

; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.

A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.

A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

Tumult; discord; dissension. They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves. Clarendon.

Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.

To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.

hing vessel. Bill of fare. See under Bill. -- Fare indicator or register, a device for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc. -- Fare wicket. (a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it. (b) An opening in the doo…

To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight. Locke.

Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.

hich fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.

ething , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts. The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them. Swift.

Records or registers of important events.

feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.

woe assuage. Shak. The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record. Tennyson.

ods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt.

compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.

Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant. Figurate counterpoint or descant (Mus.), that which is not simple, or in which the parts do not move together tone for tone, but in which freer movement of on…

Mixture of concords and discords.