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llowed by in. Lest negligence or partiality might admit or fois in abuses corruption. R. Carew. When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. South.

; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude. The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade. Carew. To foreclose a mortgager (Law), to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption. -- To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically correct, but often used…

Nourishing. [Obs.] T. Carew (1633).

A kind of weir for catching fish. [Eng.] Carew.

Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [R.] Be not ever frozen, coy. T. Carew.

Protected by turrets. [Obs.] R. Carew.

Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep. Shak.

A short, thick man; a dwarf. [Obs.] Carew.

Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough. [Obs.] Carew.

A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] Carew. C. Kingsley.

f game at ball, formerly played. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball. Carew.

to with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave. I on thy grave this epitaph incise. T. Carew.

residence; occupancy. Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance. Carew.

To converse. [Obs.] Carew.

A mounted peddler of fish; -- called also jouster. [Obs.] Carew.

A game; ninepins. [Prov Eng.] Carew.

to dress it and to keep it. Gen. ii. 15. In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

The office or position of a keeper. Carew.

To harden, as corn in ripening. [Obs.] Carew.

t, 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.