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breed of black-faced hornless sheep similar to the Southdown, but larger, now extensively raised in many parts of the world.

To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like. They grin, they shrug. They bow, they snarl, they snatch, they hug. Swift.

To make sick; to disease. Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior.

A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it. Crabb.

Mere; not other than; being only. A medicine . . . whose simple touch Is powerful to araise King Pepin. Shak.

f God, and the song of the Lamb. Rev. xv. 3. And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise. Keble.

hich seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed. W. S. Clark.

ilton. To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise. Tillotson.

hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation. I raise of sink, imprison or set free. Prior. If I have a conscience, let it sink me. Shak. Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power Has sunk thy father more than all his years. Rowe.

small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something. [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; Then, sipping, offered to the next in place. Dryden.

the head of a family; the husband. Jankin thet was our sire [i.e., husband]. Chaucer. And raise his issue, like a loving sire. Shak.

utellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.

pain, and the like. "At one slight bound." Milton. Slight is the subject, but not so the praise. Pope. Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight grounds. Locke.

a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny. Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft. Milton.

y a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer. 'T was what I said to Craggs and Child, Who praised my modesty, and smiled. Pope.

To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field. Dryden.

To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.

other end, or beak, within the article worked upon gives the requisite blow for producing raised work. See 1st Snarl.

lly; as, some man, that is, some one man. "Some brighter clime." Mrs. Barbauld. Some man praiseth his neighbor by a wicked intent. Chaucer. Most gentlemen of property, at some period or other of their lives, are ambitious of representing their county in Parliament. Blackstone.

er sort. Shak. To Adam in what sort Shall I appear Milton. I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style. Dryden.