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inister justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence. Bacon.…

Of or relating to a court; judicial. [Obs.] His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing. Shak.

Like an ament, or bearing aments; amentaceous.

Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief. Milton.

turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc.

. An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. McElrath.

A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn doth by men and women. Wearing her Norman car, and her kirtle of blue. Longfellow.

Wearing a kirtle. Byron.

A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.

The character or bearing suitable for a knight; chivalry. Spenser.

the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of thi…

t consists of the second pair of maxillæ, usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum).

Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

ue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costlylaces. Bacon.

To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.

A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

Bearing, or composed of, lamellæ, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.

Bearing a lance.

A tearing; laceration. "Lancinations of the spirit." Jer. Taylor.