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n of God he may do, it is kindly for Him as the Son of Man to save the sons of men. L. Andrews.

, etc.; as, a parting kiss; a kiss of reconciliation. Last with a kiss, she took a long farewell. Dryden. Dear as remembered kisses after death. Tennyson.

A small violin. "A dancing master's kit." Grew. Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. Dickens.

f a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.

Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.[R.] Rewe.

The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.

charity edifieth. 1 Cor. viii. 1. Ignorance is the curse of God; -Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

Milled, as the head of a screw, or the edge of a coin.

To labialize. Brewer.

t a claim. It ill became him to take advantage of such a laches with the eagerness of a shrewd attorney. Macaulay.

d and fourth quarters; depending on the relative positions of the sun and moon. -- Lag screw, an iron bolt with a square head, a sharp-edged thread, and a sharp point, adapted for screwing into wood; a screw for fastening lags.

The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers. There was . . . language in their very gesture. Shak.

pacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a flay. Grew.

Work in which one part laps over another. Grew.

To catch so as to hold. [Obs.] Those that remained threw darts at our men, and latching our darts, sent them again at us. Golding.

ting tool has an automatic feed; -- used chiefly for turning and boring metals, cutting screws, etc. -- Foot lathe, a lathe which is driven by a treadle worked by the foot. -- Geometric lathe. See under Geometric -- Hand lathe, a lathe operated by hand; a power turning lathe without an automatic feed for the tool. -…

Crowned, or decked, with laurel. Chaucer. To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. Milton. Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. Pope. Poet laureate. (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath…

enters, in approaching it, at the instant when the valve opens to admit steam. -- Lead screw (Mach.), the main longitudinal screw of a lathe, which gives the feed motion to the carriage.

Having but little sense or shrewdness.

In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others; as, to reward those who least deserve it.