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Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak. Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power. Tennyson.

To serve as a model for; to surpass. [Obs.] He hath achieved a maid That paragons description and wild fame. Shak.

f the sphere in which the circles of daily motion are parallel to the horizon, as to an observer at either pole. -- Parallel vise, a vise having jaws so guided as to remain parallel in all positions.

Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.

arrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc.

That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.

of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country. Berkley.

s and Maine, April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington in 1775. It was first observed in 1894. [U. S.]

Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.

usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. Locke.

To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing.

edigree. Milton. I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees. Sir P. Sidney. The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes. Atterbury.

A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars.

A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill.

The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller.

n some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.

d kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.

A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.

To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke.