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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. Shak. Ghastly spasm or racking torture. Milton.

to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] Ascham. To toss off, to drink hastily. -- To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.

Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidæ. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and bl…

A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense. Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. Ps. lxi. 3.

Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.

The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming. [Colloq.]

To march on; to go forward in haste. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak.

as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Ps. xii. 6. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. Ps. lxvi. 10.

ugly and venomous. Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak.

al Uncaptious Uncareful Uncelestial Unceremonious Unchallengeable Unchangeable Unchary Unchastisable Uncheerful

Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to. Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to yoke. Jer. xxxi. 18.

which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity.

by clandestine measure; to undermine. But thou from loving England art so far, That thou hast underwrought his lawful king. Shak.

ble; unutterable; ineffable. [Obs.] Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she. Shak. -- Un`ex*press"ive*ly, adv.

Free from rioting. [Obs.] "A chaste, unrioted house." May (Lucan).

er. Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser.

To wish not to be; to destroy by wishing. [Obs.] Now thou hast unwished five thousand men. Shak.

ng to see who he was that could withstand so many years the Roman puissance. Milton. Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms. Dryden. Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. Dryden. A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. Addison.…

r. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.

intermission; rest; leisure. It was not in his nature, however, at least till years had chastened it, to take any vacation from controversy. Palfrey. Hence, specifically: -(a) (Law)