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Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions. Our country landlords, by unmeasureable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France. swift.

t especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman. Able seaman, a sailor who is practically conversant with all the duties of common seamanship. -- ordinary seaman. See Ordinary.

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

om others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party. He bea…

edy coat. [Colloq.] Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. Goldsmith. Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminæ and the wall of the hoof.

Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.

To practice selling commodities. I will buy with you, sell with you; . . . but I will not eat with you. Shak.

The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.

The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.

One who practices sensational writing or speaking.

therein, he is accounted mad or foolish." (d) When the substantive is emphasized: "Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation." -- Moral sense. See under Moral, (a). -- The inner,…

The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.

brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything. Shak. His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, A living sermon of the truths he taught. Dryden.

To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.

Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.

To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.

To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle. Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning. Bp. Earle.

zor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat.

To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts. [Obs.] Shak.

One who practices petty thefts. [Obs.] Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.