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ed chisel for cleaning out mortises. Knight. -- Ripping iron. (Shipbuilding) Same as Ravehook. -- Ripping saw. (Carp.) See Ripsaw. -- To rip out, to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as, to rip out an oath. [Colloq.] See To rap out, under Rap, v. t.

Litany; supplication. He perfecteth the rogations or litanies before in use. Hooker. Rogation days (Eccl.), the three days which immediately precede Ascension Day; -- so called as being days on which the people, walking in procession, sang litanies of special supplication. -- Rogation flower (Bot.), a European species…

monly in the form rollicking. [Colloq.] He described his friends as rollicking blades. T. Hook.

Dewy. [R.] And shook his wings with rory May-dew wet. Fairfax.

A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

pal works of God . . . be but certain tastes and saus, as if were, of that final benefit. Hooker. Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes. Shak.

ace, or reproach upon. I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things. Hooker. the congregation looked on in silence, the better class scandalized, and the lower orders, some laughing, others backing the soldier or the minister, as their fancy dictated. Sir W. Scott.

exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation. Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any. Hooker.

A scholium. [Obs.] Hooker.

A long-handled billhook. See Billhook. Scimiter pods (Bot.), the immense curved woody pods of a leguminous woody climbing plant (Entada scandens) growing in tropical India and America. They contain hard round flattish seeds two inches in diameter, which are made into boxes.

ading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church. Hooker.

rong. Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous. Hooker.

th public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show. Hooker.

t now naturalized in the West Indies and some other tropical countries. It has a powerful hooked beak, a crest of long feathers, and a long tail. It feeds upon reptiles of various kinds, and is much prized on account of its habit of killing and devouring snakes of all kinds. Called also serpent eater.…

hancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service. Hook.

Apprehension; judgment. [Obs.] Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason, to her seeming. Milton.

ty were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies. Hooker.

Rarely; not often; not frequently. Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. Hooker.

Rareness. Hooker.

or. As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye. R. Hooke.