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e heels of, to outrun. -- To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to imprison. Shak. Addison. -- To show the heels, to flee; to run from. -- To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight. -- To throw up another's heels, to trip him. Bunyan. -- To tread upon one's heels, to follow closely. Shak.…

To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)

to greater heights, and enforced with stronger motives by the principles of our religion. Addison.

bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint. "To heighten our confusion." Addison. An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous. Hawthorne.

ch in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism. Addison.

ith.), the numbers of the series 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, etc., being figurate numbers formed by adding successively the terms of the arithmetical series 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, etc.

self among, a group or company. I'll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number. Addison.

A future existence or state. 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter. Addison.

e or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church." Addis & Arnold.

y glorious reign, took on him the habit of a hermit, and retired into this solitary spot. Addison.

A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.

to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.

chase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the title vest absolutely in him, and that if he chooses he may at any…

To hit on or upon, to light upon; to come to by chance. "None of them hit upon the art." Addison.

White or whitish."The hoary willows." Addison.

North American snake of the genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; -- called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper.

ne hold. Chaucer. Thou should'st lay hold upon him. B. Jonson. My soul took hold on thee. Addison. Take fast hold of instruction. Pror. iv. 13.

One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.

ally called Brethren of St. Joseph. The Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. Addis & Arnold. -- Holy-cross day, the fourteenth of September, observed as a church festival, in memory of the exaltation of our Savior's cross.

Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. Addison.