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ith toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.

One who drudges; a drudge.

The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke.

See Dredging box.

In a drudging manner; laboriously.

To make a drudge or slave of. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To instruct; to educate; to teach. [Obs.] The skillful goddess there erudiates these In all she did. Fanshawe.

Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned. "A most erudite prince." Sir T. More. "Erudite . . . theology." I. Taylor. -- Er"u*dite`ly, adv. -- Er"u*dite`ness, n.

The act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship. The management of a young lady's person is not be overlooked, but the e…

press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away. "Parentheses thrown into notes or extruded to the margin." Coleridge.

ook upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects. Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train. Shak. I have of…

Full of grudge; envious. "Grudgeful discontent." Spenser.

Coarse meal. [Obs.]

One who grudges.

In a grudging manner.

The state or quality of grudging, or of being full of grudge or unwillingness.

Of or pertaining to the leeches.

An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.

A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech.

The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence. His serenity was interrupted, perhaps, by his own imprudence. Mickle.