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Politicly; artfully. [Obs.] Knolles.

above my chief joy. Ps. cxxxvii. 6. Preferred an infamous peace before a most just war. Knolles. Preferred stock, stock which takes a dividend before other capital stock; -- called also preference stock and preferential stock.

To limit beforehand. [Obs.] Knolles.

Respectable. [Obs.] Knolles.

To retire; to give up a siege. He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . . was gone. Knolles.

treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of the rotten way." Knolles. Rotten borough. See under Borough. -- Rotten stone (Min.), a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and for cl…

great while in Rome. Sir W. Temple. Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himself. Knolle

. who had before been great commanders, but now served as private gentlemen without pay. Knolles.

d. [Obs.] The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the Venetians. Knolles. -- To set forward. (a) To cause to advance. (b) To promote. -- To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate. -- To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to…

See Shawm. [Obs.] Knolles.

One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. By these shavers the Turks were stripped. Knolles.

A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnée; -- usually in the plural.

. . . shipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium. Knolles.

ourage. The Rhodians, seeing the enemy turn their backs, gave a great shout in derision. Knolles.

or duty. All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, he Knolles.

as, the violence of the waves was spent. Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. Knolles.

To furnish with staves or rundles. Knolles.

is great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. Knolles.

hickest part, or the time when anything is thickest. In the thick of the dust and smoke. Knolles.

A knoll or hill. [Obs.] "A tower on a toft." Piers Plowman.