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able or enigma); to understand. "Canst thou by searching find out God" Job. xi. 7. "We do hope to find out all your tricks." Milton. -- To find fault with, to blame; to censure. -- To find one's self, to be; to fare; -- often used in speaking of health; as, how do you find yourself this morning

ny part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings, finisher Of utmost hope! Milton.

sacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.

er than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass. A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale. Macaulay.

ow; ruined; destroyed. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. Milton.

To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.

Unsteadiness; levity; lightness. [Obs.] Bp. Hopkins.

A hopper-shaped box or Knight.

ff, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people." Milton.

To infatuate; to make foolish. Shak. For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit. Dryden.

o pay one's footing, to pay a fee on first doing anything, as working at a trade or in a shop. Wright. -- Footing beam, the tie beam of a roof.

Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing. [Written also forced meat.]

To determine or decree beforehand. Bp. Hopkins.

To bestow beforehand. [R.] King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.

The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.

A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman. Tatler. W. Besant.

e iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. In the quick forge and working house of thought. Shak.

Deserted abandoned; lost. Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn. Spenser. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers. I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the hearts of Englishmen. Burke.

To impair; to wear away; to diminish. By starts His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear. Shak.