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ian religion. Locke. He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep. F. W. Robertson.

To discover; to disclose; to reveal. [R.] His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him. Milton.

To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked. Drink disapparels the soul. Junius (1635).

To take off the dress of; to unrobe. So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed. Spenser.

To unrobe; to undress. Spenser.

nd; a nonconformist. Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. Shipley.

nce, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of. And made us doff our easy robes of peace. Shak. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.

A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks. [Written also doliman.]

A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.

To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with. Should I don this robe and trouble you. Shak. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.

To dye again or twice over. To double-dye their robes in scarlet. J. Webster.

; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom. Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe. Milton. O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it! Shak.

By metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor without stain. Chatham.

ientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a philosophical one. G. C. Robertson.

color, essentially a tantalo- niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.

A brooch, clasp, or buckle. Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp. Wordsworth.

ially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels. Her mistress' cast-off finery. F. W. Robertson.

Made or consisting of flannel. [Obs.] "Flannen robes." Dryden.

causes seemingly fortuitous . . . that all the mighty effects of the Reformation flowed. Robertson. So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole. Hazlitt.

e of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. Robertson.