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tells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet. Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. Dryden.

lpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

nscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs. Aware of nothing arduous in a task They never undertook. Cowper.

Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness. Shelley's thought never had any backbone. Shairp. To the backbone, through and through; thoroughly; entirely. "Staunch to the backbone." Lord Lytton.

Uneven; ridgy. [R.] Holinshed.

infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name. I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. Shak.

To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with. I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. Shak.

At or during pleasure. For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure. F. Harrison.

To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. Swift.

In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another. Never was monarch better feared, and loved. Shak.

To utter blasphemy. He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness. Mark iii. 29.

x, to bleat the woolly train. Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. Shak.

quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey.

Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.

To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.

and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.

To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reac…

f; to be pregnant. That they breed abundantly in the earth. Gen. viii. 17. The mother had never bred before. Carpenter. Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak.

Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.

The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.