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To injure one's good name; to slander. [Obs.]

another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States.

To fail of edifying; to injure. [R.]

To injure the form or looks of. [R.] B. Jonson.

To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. [R.] The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton.

Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable. [Obs.]

To damnify; to injure. [R.] Sandys.

To do harm to; to injure; to disparage. [Obs.] If I make a lie To gain your love and envy my best mistress, Put me against a wall. J. Fletcher.

; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith. For you alone I broke me faith with injured Palamon. Dryden.

Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious. "A fierce whisper." Dickens. "A fierce tyrant." Pope. The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear. Milton. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion. Job. x. 16.

Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.

ence to the act forgiven. And their sins should be forgiven them. Mark iv. 12. He forgive injures so readily that he might be said to invite them. Macaulay.

ng an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick. If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope.

A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.

To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable. I am loth to gall a new-healed wound. Shak.

Manifesting a desire to injure, devour, or overcome. They have gaped upon me with their mouth. Job xvi. 10.

To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong. Though yet he never harmed me. Shak. No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm. Milton.

To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.