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The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling. Congreve.

gthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.

. [R.] "It is the hush of night." Byron. Hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts. Swift.

ly checked forces part of it into the air chamber b, and up the pipe c, its return being prevented by a valve at the entrance to the air chamber, while the dropping of the valve a by its own weight allows another rush through the main pipe, and so on alternately. -- Hydraulic valve. (Mach.) (a) A valve for regulating…

A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.

and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.

e from a condition previously invuced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."

An image or representation of anything. [Obs.] Do her adore with sacred reverence, As th' idol of her maker's great magnificence. Spenser.

Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity.

To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.

One who idolizes or loves to the point of reverence; an idolater.

Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity. Who can all sense of others' ills escape Is but a brute at best in human shape. Tate. That makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of. Shak.…

on; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. -- Illative sense (Metaph.), the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the corre…

Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. 1 Tim. i. 17. For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself Shak.

To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke.

To hinder; to impede; to prevent. [Obs.] These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land. Sir J. Davies. A defluxion on my throat impeached my utterance. Howell.

e land Have we marched on without impediment. Shak. Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance.

Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time.

The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.