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to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud. They show how hard they are set in this particular. Addison.

In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface. Knight.

ence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support. Blackstone. Bouvier. Act of settlement (Eng. Hist.), the statute of 12 and 13 William III, by which the crow…

Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope.

Each particular taken singly; distinction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face. Prior.

That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically;

sion of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular. [Cant, U.S.] N. Biddle.

A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.

To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather. Chaucer.

ity or state of being shy. [Written also shiness.] Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul. Baxter.

Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.

Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.

A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy. What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies. Sir W. Temple.

untarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned. Ps. li. 4. All have sinned, and co…

Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.

An individual instance; a particular. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction. No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop]. Hooker. Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation. Bp. Pearson.

nister or inferior arts. South. He read in their looks . . . sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself. Sir W. Scott.