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er the condition of the clergy be able to bear a heavy burden, is submitted to the house. Swift. We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus. Macaulay.

n their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the example of their superiors. Swift.

stroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance, but not for our own interest. Swift.

The height or top of anything. [Obs.] Swift.

To summon. [R. or Colloq.] Swift.

tice. Hammond. Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenient causes. Z. Swift.

tually disowns, unless his practicies contradict his profession; not upon small surmises. Swift.

ing suspicion, mistrust, or fear. We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance. Swift.

To bully. [R.] Swift.

in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.

Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift.

To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.

eaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation. -- Sweep"ing*ly, adv. -Sweep"ing*ness, n.

ause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other. He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round. Dryden. They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants. Spectator.

The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]

privileged cards, formerly used in betting at the game of whist. [Written also swabber.] Swift.

e symptoms exhibited. Like the sick man, we are expiring with all sorts of good symptoms. Swift.

To fasten or attach. "In hopes of getting some commendam tacked to their sees." Swift. And tacks the center to the sphere. Herbert.

esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases. Swift.

Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy.