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A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.

ncert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. W. Irving.

A young bull, or any male of the ox kind. Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old. Judges vi. 25.

ce, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume. Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Matt. viii. 21. I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. Shak.

; as, the business of life; business before pleasure. Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business Luke ii. 49.

rer; a talebearer. And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death. Shak.

A private room in which consultations are held. Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet. Prescott.

. Thou hast been careful for us with all this care. 2. Kings iv, 13. What could a careful father more have done Dryden.

to call to answer; to defy. I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood. Locke.

ing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons. Our fathers did for change to France repair. Dryden. The ringing grooves of change. Tennyson.

, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters. His father . . . engaged him when he was very young to write all his letters to England in cipher. Bp. Burnet. Cipher key, a key to assist in reading writings in cipher.

own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation. This horse load of citations and fathers. Milton.

interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. Gen. ii. 24. Cleave unto the Lord your God. Josh. xxiii. 8.

y, adv. We bless and magnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son]. Hooker.

A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.

his office of comforting believers. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26.

give in charge for care or preservation. His eye commends the leading to his hand. Shak. Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. Luke xxiii. 46.

Commonwealth. Such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal. Shak.

The relation of a godfather to a person. [Obs.] The relation of gossipred or compaternity by the cannon law is a spiritual affinity. Sir J. Da

The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else but father. Sir W. Temple.