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of nature To quit this horrid act. Shak. Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. Fairfax.

An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.

ir, till, encountering the cold, it be condensed into clouds, and descends in drops. Ray. Fair days have oft contracted wind and rain. Milton.

Rankly; stoutly; violently. [Obs.] That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell. Fairfax.

with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice. I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme. Spenser. But law in a free…

One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.

of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action if acid. Fairholt.

To mark or indicate by a rebus. He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it. Fuller.

e estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases. Bouvier.

h or to. The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of state. Locke. Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, Considered singly, or beheld too near; Which, but proportioned to their light or place, Due distance reconciles to form and grace. Pope.

hey longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest. Fairfax.

Cure; remedy; recovery. [Obs.] But whom he hite, without recure he dies. Fairfax.

One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress. Dryden.

, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions. Fairholt.

To go over again; to repeat. [Obs.] To him therefore this wonder done refar. Fairfax.

Refusal. [Obs.] Fairfax.

To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.

n Italy that have not a tooth or a bone of this saint. Addison. Thy relics, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred place by Dryden's awful dust. Pope.

ever was excelent in arts. Macaulay. I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be jCowper.

ain; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.