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lity; offense against right. Satan had not answer, but stood struck With guilt of his own sin. Milton.

England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817. The guinea, so called from the Guinea gold out of which it was first struck, was proclaimed in 1663, and to go for twenty shillings; but it never went for less than twenty-one shillings. Pink…

An insatiable thing or person. That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure. Marston.

ccording to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin. It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings. Buckminster.

Literally, this-ness. A scholastic term to express individuality or singleness; as, this book.

A genus of leguminous plants containing but a single species, the H. Campechianum or logwood tree, native in Yucatan.

lutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.

A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an implement that is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax to its helve. [U. S.]

elating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Have.

, 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Fave, contr. of havest. [Archaic]

sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf. Hatte. [Obs.] "That one hat abstinence." Piers Plowman.

pres. & imp. sing. & pl. of Hote, to be called. See Hote. [Obs.] Chaucer. A full perilous place, purgatory it hatte. Piers Plowman.

A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba. -- n. sing. & pl.

Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. Shak. The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. Addison.

o man deputed of the king to hear thee. 2 Sam. xv. 3. I beseech your honor to hear me one single word. Shak.

Sincerely beloved. [R.] Shak.