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A stable for horses. [Obs.] Johnson.

To cut with a hoe. [Obs.] Johnson.

the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour. Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come. John ii. 4. This is your hour, and the power of darkness. Luke xxii. 53.

made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.

In what manner or way; by what means or process. How can a man be born when he is old John iii. 4.

Entrails of a deer. [Written also umbles.] Johnson.

Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.

A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.

A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.

A genus of plants, generally with dotted leaves and yellow flowers; -- called also St. John's-wort.

Concreted sugar. Johnson.

Good against the jaundice. Johnson.

of development. That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Johnson. What is now "idea" for us How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly- created world, -"how it showed . . . Answering his great idea," -to its present use, w…

A snare; a trap. Johnson.

Not memorable; not worth remembering. Johnson.

duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country. Even the ship money . . . Johnson could not pronounce to have been an unconstitutional impost. Macaulay.

or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson.

In an impracticable manner. Morality not impracticably rigid. Johnson.

urate use of language. But every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities. Johnson. Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded. Swift.

Suitable for, or pertaining to, inauguration. Johnson.