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dience or compliance; -- said of persons. Very discerning and prompt in giving orders. Clarendon. Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at's feet. Shak. Any you, perhaps, too prompt in your replies. Dryden.

To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate. Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage. Pope.

A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

To favor; to render successful. "Prosper thou our handiwork." Bk. of Common Prayer. All things concur toprosper our design. Dryden.

To render provincial. M. Arnold.

ing company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.

Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [R.] Fuller.

The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material.

To draw apart; to tear; to rend. He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. Lam. iii. 11.

doo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplement…

To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.] No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends. Wyclif (John xv. 13).

To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.

Rendered transparent by heat.

miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet. "A spot surrounded by quagmires, which rendered it difficult of access." Palfrey.

d his own clemency, now they were at his mercy, to offer them quarter for their lives. Clarendon. Cocks and lambs . . . at the mercy of cats and wolves . . . must never expect better quarter. L'Estrange.

Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting.

A collector of parish rents. Blount. [Obs.]

h to the end. [Obs.] Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown. Daniel.

A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone.

A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.