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One of the four narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Ægopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.

To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse. Govern well thy appetite. Milton.

w; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man. Milton.

Great age; long life. [Obs.] Glanvill.

arbed thorns by which they adhere to cattle, causing intense annoyance. -- Grapple shot (Life-saving Service), a projectile, to which are attached hinged claws to catch in a ship's rigging or to hold in the ground; -- called also anchor shot.

motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive. As one that grasped And tugged for life and was by strength subdued. Shak. To grasp at, to catch at; to try to seize; as, Alexander grasped at universal empire,

se, a badger, or a kind of salmon. Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day. That coats thy life, my gallant gray. Sir W. Scott.

Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. Burke.

Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine. The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove. J. Morley.

d. Is. lix. 10. To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.

groan or a deep guttural sound. Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Shak. Grunting ox (Zoöl.), the yak.

ter far, I guess, That we do make our entrance several ways. Shak. But in known images of life I guess The labor greater. Pope.

The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.

Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.

To live the life of a drudge or hack. Goldsmith.

Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels.

l churches of New England, between 1657 and 1662, of permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the Lord's Supper. They were also allowed to present their children for baptism. -- Halfway house, an inn or place of call midway on…

A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.

To be, or be like, a suspended weight. Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden. Addison.