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Practicing plagiarism. Bp. Hall.

Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak.

The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.

Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party. "A predatory war." Macaulay.

Practicing tricks; juggling. [Obs.] Cotton Mather.

See Choir. [Obs.] Spenser. A quire of such enticing birds. Shak.

The act of rejoicing. Sir T. Browne.

Rejoicing. [Obs.]

Act of remarking or attentively noticing; notice or observation. The cause, though worth the search, may yet elude Conjecture and remark, however shrewd. Cowper.

The act of noticing with attention; the giving particular consideration to; hence, care; caution. But he it well did ward with wise respect. Spenser.

Noticing with attention; hence, careful; wary; considerate. [Obs.] If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not . . . refuse this charge. A

tween enemies; the restoration of peace after war. Behold the different climes agree, Rejoicing in thy restoration. Dryden.

Prodicing roots.

o procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep. Oft sacrificing bullock, lamb, or kid. Milton.

The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.

Refusing to gratify one's self; self-sacrificing. -- Self`-de*ny"ing*ly, adv.

The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.

artment in the hold of a vessel, for containing shot. -- Shot of a cable (Naut.), the splicing of two or more cables together, or the whole length of the cables thus united. -- Shot prop (Naut.), a wooden prop covered with tarred hemp, to stop a hole made by the shot of an enemy in a ship's side. -- Shot tower, a lo…

An enticing, dangerous woman. Shak.

it into narrow strips, as nail rods, and the like. (b) A machine used by lapidaries for slicing stones, usually by means of a revolving disk, called a slicer, supplied with diamond powder. -- Slitting roller, one of a pair of rollers furnished with ribs entering between similar ribs in the other roller, and cutting li…