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To disentangle. [Obs.] Hooker.

rd. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.

; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.

al; common. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker. We can make friends of these usual enemies. Baxter. -- U"su*al*ly, adv. -- U"su*al*ness, n.

o believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist. Hooker.

25. He cannot have sufficient honor done unto him; but the uttermost we can do, we must. Hooker.

ending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him. Hooker.

ance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc. Wed hook, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun.

Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing, as:

ound a field to retain water let in for the purpose of enriching land. Craig. -- Warping hook, a hook used by rope makers for hanging the yarn on, when warping it into hauls for tarring. -- Warping mill, a machine for warping yarn. -- Warping penny, money, varying according to the length of the thread, paid to the w…

Characterized by caution; guarded; careful. It behoveth our words to be wary and few. Hooker.

, a small, handy purchase, consisting of a tailed double block, and a single block with a hook.

se. "Convinced of his weak arguing." Milton. A case so weak . . . hath much persisted in. Hooker.

Tobacco, or a cigar. [Slang] Weed hook, a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds. Tusser.

-pronged fork, used in clearing ground of weeds; -- called also weeding iron. -- Weeding hook. Same as Weed hook, under 3d Weed. -- Weeding iron. See Weeding fork, above. -- Weeding tongs. Same as Weeding forceps, above.

, or his own. Milton. Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken. Hooker. In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs. Pope. Without sufficiently weighing his expressions. Sir W. Scott.

ocks of the Welsh mountains, and largely manufactured by hand. -- Welsh glaive, or Welsh hook, a weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleax. Fairholt. Craig. -- Welsh mortgage (O. Eng. Law), a species of mortgage, being a conveyance of an estate, redeemable at any time on p…

Concerning which; about which. "The object whereabout they are conversant." Hooker.

A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.

appetite's controller; what we covet according to the one, by the other we often reject. Hooker. The will is plainly that by which the mind chooses anything. J. Edwards.