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cy, dying legacy, and the like. My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world. Tyndale. He came and told his legacy. Chapman. Legacy duty, a tax paid to government on legacies. Wharton. -- Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy.

not solid. Yes, though he go upon the plane and liquid water which will receive no step. Tyndale.

e words unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again. Tyndale.

ing of a phrase. It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide. Tyndale .

In a manner to please, or to excite love. [Obs. or R.] Tyndale.

to have to do; -- [Obs.] Barrow. Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. Tyndale.

draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale. They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator. To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately rais…

To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. Tyndale.

Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.

use the Scripture . . . to nosel thee in anything save in Christ, he is a false prophet. Tyndale.

I have no objection to going; unreasonable objections. "Objections against every truth." Tyndale.

See Otherwise. Tyndale.

re under obligation to pay; owed. [Obs.] This due obedience which they ought to the king. Tyndale. The love and duty I long have ought you. Spelman. [He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound. Shak.

elfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone. Tyndall.

A keeper of the pantry; a pantler. [Obs.] Tyndale.

, particles, such as dust, minute germs, etc. [R.] The smallpox is a particulate disease. Tyndall.

To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips. Tyndale. Etym: [In this sense, and in the following, perh. from paternoster.]

Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic. Tyndall.

A parrot. The pye and popyngay speak they know not what. Tyndale.

See Porteass. [Obs.] Tyndale.