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A jester; a droll. [Obs.] Glanvill.

A droll. [R.] Glanvill.

To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of. Glanvill.

small a degree of elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real. Glanvill.

currence; a sudden occasion. Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency. Glanvill.

That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. The hope of everlasting enjoyments. Glanvill.

The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. Glanvill.

Of equal weight on both sides; balanced. [Obs.] Glanvill.

must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

To overthrow or subvert. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Let out of the veins. [Obs.] "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.

Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.

The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm. Glanvill.

To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom. "Fleshed in triumphs." Glanvill. Old soldiers Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France. Beau. & Fl.

fording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. Knight.

he freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.

That which generates. Glanvill.

By genius or nature; naturally. [Obs.] Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill.

Fig.: One who gluts himself. Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. Granville.

Great age; long life. [Obs.] Glanvill.