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A slight wound; a scratch. [Obs.] Hooker.

A lecture or prelection; public recital. The Jews had their weekly readings of the law. Hooker.

To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] Shak. Reaping hook, an instrument having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.

A second baptism. [Obs.] Hooker.

To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.

ints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God. Hooker.

evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. Hooker.

The act entereing again; re Hooker.

To examine anew. Hooker.

paration for a public exhibition or exercise. Chaucer. In rehearsal of our Lord's Prayer. Hooker. Here's marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal. Shak. Dress rehearsal (Theater), a private preparatory performance of a drama, opera, etc., in costume.

To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance. [Obs.] Hooker. A sacred vow that none should aye Spenser.

rom; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit. We ought to relinquish such rites. Hooker. They placed Irish tenants upon the lands relinquished by the English. Sir J. Davies.

ings, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual. Hooker.

sideration; motive; interest. [Obs.] "Whatever secret respects were likely to move them." Hooker. To the publik good Private respects must yield. Milton. In respect, in comparison. [Obs.] Shak. -- In respect of. (a) In comparison with. [Obs.] Shak. (b) As to; in regard to. [Archaic] "Monsters in respect of their bodie…

ached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.

hat saw the people bent for the revocation of Calvin, gave him notice of their affection. Hooker.

ilton. Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill. Hooker.

A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.

The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. "Riddance from all adversity." Hooker.

e other in us, which consisteth of faith, hope, and charity, and other Christian virtues. Hooker. Only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone. Westminster Catechism.