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hat impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check. Cowper.

One who holds Kent.

See Endurance.

Inquiry. [Obs.] Latimer.

rtakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.

One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter. [Obs.] Dryden. hose bold insurancers of deathless fame. Blair.

or passions. God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. Jer. Taylor. Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In meats and drinks. Milton.

Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

Iteration. [Obs.]

Forbearance to punish or resent.

Cultivation. [Obs.] Spenser.

Moderation. [Obs.] Caxton.

A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.

Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.

The act of operating or working; operation. [R.]

The utmost or last extremity. Combat à outrance, a fight to the end, or to the death.

The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power of quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia.

Long continuance. [Archaic]

prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun. "The king-becoming graces . . . perseverance, mercy, lowliness." Shak. Whose constant perseverance overcame Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. Milton.

Weight; gravity. [R.] Gregory.