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- Southern cross. (Astron.) See under Southern. -- To do a thing on the cross, to act dishonestly; -- opposed to acting on the square. [Slang] -- To take up the cross, to bear troubles and afflictions with patience from love to Christ.

A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly,…

Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing. His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me. Thackeray.

ere, treacherous dealing; duplicity. -- Plain dealing, fair, sincere, honorable dealing; honest, outspoken expression of opinion.

Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn. Not one found honestly deductible From any use that pleased him. Mrs. Browning.

r, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker. [U.S.] For peddling dicker, not for honest sales. Whittier.

Straightforwardly; honestly. I have dealt most directly in thy affair. Shak.

Sober; prudent; sedate; modest. [Scot.] And this is a douce, honest man. Sir W. Scott.

it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market. Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks. Shak.

To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. L'Estrange.

The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. W. Irving.

Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [R.] Entireness in preaching the gospel. Udall.

Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement. "I would call it fair play." Shak.

Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest. -- Fair"*mind`ed*ness, n.

Honestly; properly. Such means of comfort or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp. Hawthorne.

The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.

Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. [Obs.] "Make thy words faithed." Shak.

Not truly; not honestly; falsely. "You play me false." Shak.

companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.

Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty. The principal thing required in a witness is fidelity. Hooker.