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her, mother, and the kinbeside. Dryden. You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons. Bacon.

rn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers Bacon. A kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly. In kind, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money. Tax on tillage was often l…

To strike smartly; to rap; to snap. Bacon.

ething; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another. Bacon.

e interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc. "Garden knots." Bacon. Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.

fference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges. Bacon. Knowledges is a term in frequent use by Bacon, and, though now obsolete, should be revived, as without it we are compelled to borrow "cognitions" to express its import. Sir W. Hamilton. To use a word of Bacon's, now unfortu…

The joint of a plant. [Obs.] Bacon.

Jointed. [Obs.] Bacon.

as an ornament of dress. Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costlylaces. Bacon.

Anything made of wool. [Obs.] Bacon.

things, or to figurative uses. The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible. Rambler. Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. I. Taylor.

Bacon; the flesh of swine. [Obs.] Dryden.

A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding.

A panegyric; a eulogy. [Obs.] Bacon.

ype) properly in the cases. To lay asleep, to put sleep; to make unobservant or careless. Bacon. -- To lay bare, to make bare; to strip. And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain. Byron. -- To lay before, to present to; to submit for consideration; as, the papers are laid before Congress. -- To lay by. (a) To…

re laid or deposited.[Obs.] B. Jonson. Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon.

Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work. Bacon.

heets or terne plates. I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. Bacon

Suggestion; hint; example. [Archaic] Bacon.

d, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse. Bacon. Leap in with me into this angry flood. Shak.