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rulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward.

A memorandum; a record. [Obs. or R.] Hayward.

dermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means. They mined the walls. Hayward. Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers... had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity. Sir W. Scott.

Shak. They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects. Hayward.

Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war. [Obs.] Hayward.

To carry too far; to carry beyond the proper point. Hayward.

rmely by of; as, to participate in a debate. Shak. So would he participateof their wants. Hayward. Mine may come when men With angels may participate. Milton.

s, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc. "A fair peal of artillery." Hayward. Whether those peals of praise be his or no. Shak. And a deep thunder, peal on peal, afar. Byron.

rnal appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. "In personage stately." Hayward. The damsel well did view his personage. Spenser.

lant life. Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them. Hayward.

wn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended. Hayward. Be sure yourself and your own reach to know. Pope.

To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward.

Blackstone. In grevious and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince. Hayward. The prisoner was remitted to the guard. Dryden.

; ay, there's the rub. Shak. Upon this rub, the English ambassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward. One knows not, certainly, what other rubs might have been ordained for us by a wise Providence. W. Besant.

Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble. When he had passed this weak and sapy age. Hayward.

and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.

y. Marquis Dorset, a man, for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded. Hayward. In wit a man; simplicity a child. Pope.

ourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.

t they should see his face no more. Acts xx. 38. I desire no man to sorrow for me. Sir J. Hayward.

his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them. Hayward.