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Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.

To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. [Obs.] Shak.

Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden.

Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Shak. The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon. The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. Dryden.

One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.

Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. "Painstaking men." Harris.

One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.

Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care. The careful course and parental provision of nature. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.

everal principal judicial courts. Parliament heel, the inclination of a ship when made to careen by shifting her cargo or ballast. -- Parliament hinge (Arch.), a hinge with so great a projection from the wall or frame as to allow a door or shutter to swing back flat against the wall. -- Long Parliament, Rump Parliame…

To take heed; to care. [Obs.] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. Shak.

A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter. Pastoral staff (Eccl.), a staff, usually of the form of a shepherd's crook, borne as an official emblem by a bishop, abbot, abbess, or other prelate privileged to carry it. See Crook, and Crosier. -- Pastoral Theology,…

ly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule." Milton.

Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care. Addison.

To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument. Carew.

te to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle. An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating despotism. Burke.

auding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. Burke.