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Clittering; in a glitter.

or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

Wateriness. [Obs.]

Wateriness.

The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.

A battering-ram.

The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram. [Obs.] Bacon.

See Wateringpot shell.

he spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.…

To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like. The thorny wilds the woodmen fierce assail. Pope.

Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

Flattering; obsequious. [Obs.] -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv. [Obs.]

of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural. Brande. Wharton. Craig. Burrill.

An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus.

The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage. Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

On the wing; flying; fluttering. Wallace.