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ote the points of agreement or disagreement. I must collage it, word, with the original Hebrew. Coleridge.

The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. Brewer.

A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also core.]

A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. Num. xi. 32 (Douay version).

To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon. He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice. Macaulay. I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages. Swift.

to play the critic. [Obs.] Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done. A. Brewer.

A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge. A Daniel come to judgment. Shak.

is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. -- Dead letter. (a) A letter which, after lying for a certain fixed time uncalled for at the post office to which it was directed, is then sent to the general post office to be opened. (b) That which has l…

To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. [R.] A. Brewer.

The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains. [Eng.] Halliwell. Box drain, Counter drain. See under Box, Counter. -- Right of drain (Law), an easement or servitude by which one man has a right to convey water in pipes through or over the estate of another. Kent.

bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. Spenser. The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. Thackeray.

Hebrew. [Obs.] Chaucer.

by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling. -- Elf fire, the ignis fatuus. Brewer. -- Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona.

One of the principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures.

See Imbrue, Embrew. [Obs.]

To make run in a channel. "Its waters were enchanneled." Sir D. Brewster.

Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.

A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer.

ure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; e. g., "Are they Hebrews so am I. Are they Israelites so am I." 2 Cor. xi. 22.

The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qipod, which in the "Authorized Version" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine. I will make it [Babylon] a possession for the ericius and pools of waters. Is. xiv. 23 (Douay version).