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To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. [Obs.] Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel. Holland.

, faith, etc. I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. Gen. xvii. 7.

Strong desire. [R.] When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak.

rip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

entice; to decoy. [Obs.] A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets. Bp. Rainbow.

to distract; to craze. O, madam, my old hear is cracked. Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. Roscommon.

Infancy, or very early life. From their cradles bred together. Shak. A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles. Clarendon.

in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.

; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift.

tries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake. Encyc. Brit.

; to grind to powder. See Crase. God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. Milton.

stances; as, shoes creak. The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. Dryden. Doors upon their hinges creaked. Tennyson.

ublic nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.

Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting. Their credential letters on both sides. Camden.

A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead. Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne.

d yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

John Hall. Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.

bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.

by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden.

t with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature. I. Watts. You know who the critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. Beaconsfield.