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hip and conduct; regularity; rule. [Obs.] They of Galatia [were] much more out of square. Hooker. I have not kept my square. Shak.

r support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. "Hooked staves." Piers Plowman. The boy was the very staff of my age. Shak. He spoke of it [beer] in "The Earnest Cry," and likewise in the "Scotch Drink," as one of the staffs of life which had been struck from the poor man's hand…

ir stains. Dryden. Our opinion . . . is, I trust, without any blemish or stain of heresy. Hooker.

iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.

gan wax as stark as marble stone. Spenser. Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. Shak. The north is not so stark and cold. B. Jonson.

r, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose . . . had the names of stations given them. Hooker.

the foremast and mainmast with thimbles spliced to its bight into which the stay tackles hook.

To be angry. [Obs.] Hooker.

- Stopper bolt (Naut.), a large ringbolt in a ship's deck, to which the deck stoppers are hooked.

A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist. Youatt.

ipture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Hooker.

a harpooner. Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try fish. Dampier.

Somewhat hooked or curved.

need of direction after what sort our wills and desires may be rightly conformed to His. Hooker.

rt to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence. His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province. Addison.

Under the nail or hoof.

ferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories. Hooker.

To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate. T. Hook.

What may be supped; pottage. [Obs.] Hooker.

advantage. To surrender up that right which otherwise their founders might have in them. Hooker.