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ame business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.

Partnership; as to go in cahoot with a person. [Slang, southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.

A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. [U. S.] Bartlett.

See Catechu.

ren; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2.

select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. Choose me for a humble friend. Pope.

One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. Burke.

Nothingness. [R.] Goodwin.

Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.

Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.

A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or de…

The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.

Same as Craps.

The state of being a cub. [Jocose] "From cubhood to old age." W. B. Dawkins.

States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close- grained wood; -- called also dahoon holly.

The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.

State of the dead. [Obs.]

Indian millet. See Durra.

The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.