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A line of persons waiting anywhere.

A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills.

A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide T. Roosevelt.

Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions.

A horse that has a racking gait.

ne. To rake out (Falconry), to fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; -- said of the hawk. Encyc. Brit.

lory's due to him that could divide Such raveled interests has he not untied Waller. The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses! Jer. Taylor.

Loyalty; faithfulness. [R.] Milton.

To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value. Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Rom. iv. 9. Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne.

Apostate; false; unfaithful. Who, for so many benefits received, Turned recreant to God, ingrate and false. Milton.

d; reflective; having respect to something past. Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond.

, were called the Reformed churches. The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith. Macaulay.

Having the chief power; ruling; predominant; prevalent. "A traitor to the vices regnant." Swift.

To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide. They enter into the justified state, and so continue all along, unless they relapse. Waterland.

of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers. An orderly life so far as others are able t…

Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict. Thus, Indianlike, Religious in my error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshiper. Shak.

To await; to be left to. [Archaic] The easier conquest now remains thee. Milton.

One faithless to principle or party. Specifically:

in the common phrase, it is reported. Shak. It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel. Neh. vi. 6.

One morally abandoned and lost. I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. Sir W. Raleigh.