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To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. Milton.

[Obs.] Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or storehoudses. Robynson (More's Utopia).

ove him to withstand. Spenser. A silly, innocent hare murdered of a dog. Robynson (More's Utopia).

o used figuratively. So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness. Robynson (More's Utopia). They felt the smack of this world. Latimer.

spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim. They be so smug and smooth. Robynson (More's Utopia). The smug and scanty draperies of his style. De Quincey. A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. Beau & Fl.

ins to speak. Shak. To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of. Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly. -- To speak well for, to commend; to be favorable to. -- To speak with, to converse with. "Would you speak with me" Shak.

e. -- To stand in, to cost. "The same standeth them in much less cost." Robynson (More's Utopia). The Punic wars could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species. Burke. -- To stand in hand, to conduce to one's interest; to be serviceable or advantageous. -- To stand off. (a) To keep at…

able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false. Robynson (more's Utopia).

Stony. [R.] "Possessed with stonish insensibility." Robynson (More's Utopia).

Power; influence. [Obs.] "Where money beareth [hath] all the stroke." Robynson (More's Utopia). He has a great stroke with the reader. Dryden.

] Bp. Sanderson. To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Utopian; ideal. [Obs.] "Utopical perfection." Bp. Hall.

A Utopian.

r if a man in any point should be found wiser than his forefathers were. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Spenser. If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside their goods. Robynson (More's Utopia) To wipe a joint (Plumbing), to make a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe, by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.…