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Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end. Sir M. Hale.

or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society. Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . . This loathsome sequestration have I had. Shak.

s dwell as in a suburb, by themselves. I passed by the piazza Judea, where their seraglio begins. Evelyn.

mployer; a subordinate helper. "A yearly hired servant." Lev. xxv. 53. Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country. D. Webster.

judicial court is called a term. It was resolved that the convocation should meet at the beginning of the next session of Parliament. Macaulay.

mprisonment, or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate. -- To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to. [Obs.] If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself. Collier. -- To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method. "The rest will I set in order when I come." 1 Cor. xi. 34.…

A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby. All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble. H. W. Beecher. Common of shack (Eng.Law), the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to…

ery; violent; impetuous. "In sharp contest of battle." Milton. A sharp assault already is begun. Dryden.

Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

er party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party. All side in parties, and begin the attack. Pope.

cts by the instrumentality of the eyes. Thy sight is young, And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle. Shak. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Milton.

hen not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major.

To acquire a silvery color. [R.] The eastern sky began to silver and shine. L. Wallace.

To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil. I simmer as liquor doth on the fire before it beginneth to boil. Palsgrave.

To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.

own. (a) To place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down when tired. (b) To begin a siege; as, the enemy sat down before the town. (c) To settle; to fix a permanent abode. Spenser. (d) To rest; to cease as satisfied. "Here we can not sit down, but still proceed in our search." Rogers. -- To sit for a fel…

See Sithen. [Obs.] Siththen that the world began. Chaucer.

To beg; to pilfer; to skelder. [Prov. Eng.& Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance. Frequent begging makes slender alms. Fuller.

To give heed to. [Obs.] From that time forward I began to smellthe Word of God, and forsook the school doctors. Latimer. To smell a rat, to have a sense of something wrong, not clearly evident; to have reason for suspicion. [Colloq.] -- To smell out, to find out by sagacity. [Colloq.]