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quickly perceive the coincidence or the contradiction between professions and conduct. J. Morse.

A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.

To excite to remorse; to rebuke. [Obs.] Skelton.

Remorse; compunction; compassion. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse. Shak.

iguratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences. A seared conscience and a remorseless heart. Macaulay.

Like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse. Shak.

up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap. He's a nimble fellow, And alike skilled in every liberal science, As having certain snaps of all. B. Jonson.

Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach. The sting of death is sin. 1 Cor. xv. 56.

A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel. Jer. Taylor.

. John ii. 9. When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse. Gibbon.

A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel. [Written also titbit.]

A morsel; a bit. Halliwell.

A small piece; a morsel; a bit. [Obs.] "A trip of cheese." Chaucer.

y, prefixed to nouns. Un- sometimes has merely an intensive force; as in unmerciless, unremorseless. I.

se a thousand horse, the flower of all His warlike troops, to wait the funeral. Dryden. Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, And everlasting anguish be thy portion. Rowe.

ing. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse.

An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! Shak.