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at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind. Bp. Stillingfleet.

by ourselves. Jer. Taylor. The formality of the vow lies in the promise made to God. Bp. Stillingfleet.

A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol.

The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship. Bp. Stillingfleet.

7H8O2, with a peculiar odor. It is the methyl ether of pyrocatechin, and is obtained by distilling guaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways. It has been used in treating pulmonary tuberculosis.

A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics. Bp. Stillingfleet.

An adz; a hoe. [Obs.] Bp. Stillingfleet.

of images to the Deity, from thence to prove the incongruity of the worship of them. Bp. Stillingfleet.

being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.

who worshiped their images as golds, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Incapable of being deposed. [R.] Princes indeposable by the pope. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraisms. Addison.

hese words were very weakly inserted where they will be so liable to misconstruction. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The of instilling; also, that which is instilled. Johnson.

The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled. [Written also instilment.]

. . . is gone a long journey. Prov. vii. 19. We must all have the same journey's end. Bp. Stillingfleet.

An alcoholic liquor, obtained by distilling the fermented juice of the small black cherry.

Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Lam"en*ta*ble*ness, n. -- Lam"en*ta*bly, adv.

To make lethargic. All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability. Coleridge.