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il his revolution was at stay. Milton. Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay. Hayward.

cause heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements. Hayward.

goods; domestic vessels or utensils. He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff. Hayward.

n the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded. Sir J. Hayward.

s had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward.

usted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse. Hayward. Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.…

Inexcusable. Hayward. -- Un`ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n.

Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] "To set upon the vague villains." Hayward. She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. Keats.

Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile. [Obs.] "Viled speeches." Hayward.

eing overcome or subdued; conquerable. "He, not vincible in spirit . . . drew his sword." Hayward. "Vincible by human aid." Paley. Vincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance within the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is responsible before God.

ed right. Shak. The merchant adventures have been often wronged and wringed to the quick. Hayward.