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projecting beyond the face, and commonly having a cape, -- worn by women as a protection against the sun.

s; false religion; religious veneration for objects. [The accusers] had certain questions against him of their own superstition. Acts xxv. 19.

ting; unquestioning; positive. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. Rom. ii. 2. I'm sure care 's an enemy of life. Shak.

Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act. There remains unpaid A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which One part of Aquitaine is bound to us. Shak.

ime; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay. Suspend your indignation against my brother. Shak. The guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so near At once suspends their courage and their fear. Denham.

urpose false, and to be swayed. Hudibras. Let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest. Tillotson.

To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner.

To brush against or over; to rub lightly along. Their long descending train, With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain. Dryden.

Obsequious flattery; servility. The sycophancy of A.Philips had prejudiced Mr. Addison against Pope. Bp. Warburton.

To inform against; hence, to calumniate. [Obs.] Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary. Milton.

e. Before any syllable of the law of God was written. Hooker. Who dare speak One syllable against him Shak.

To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.

A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

A person who attaches himself to another against the will of the latter; a hanger-on.

rage; to be encouraged. -- To take heed, to be careful or cautious. "Take heed what doom against yourself you give." Dryden. -- To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy ways. -- To take hold of, to seize; to fix on. -- To take horse, to mount and ride a horse. -- To take in. (a) To inclose; to fe…

Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.

hich moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia.

That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs. -- Tax"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tax"a*bly, adv.

A slight sound such as that made by pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth and explosively sucking out the air at one side, as in urging on a horse. -- v. i.

ding and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.