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n explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.

Traits; features; lineaments. [Obs.] The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness. Bacon.

more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity. [R.] Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell.

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

. 27. Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring. Shak. Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. Locke.

An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism. Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. J. P. Smith.

y hanging; to hang; -- usually with up. [Slang.] Sir W. Scott. To truss a person or one's self, to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. [Obs.] "Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself." J. Webster (1607). -- To truss up, to strain; to make close or ti…

To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

metal. -- To turn against. (a) To direct against; as, to turn one's arguments against himself. (b) To make unfavorable or hostile to; as, to turn one's friends against him. -- To turn a hostile army, To turn the enemy's flank, or the like (Mil.), to pass round it, and take a position behind it or upon its side. -- T…

Not begot; not yet generated; also, having never been generated; self-existent; eternal.

To change the mind of (one's self). [Obs.]

al in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self. Milton.

Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.

ivest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of; as, to uncover one's head; to uncover one's self.

Uncreated; self-existent. Book of Common Prayer.

Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.

t. [Jocose & R.] Shak. To give one to understand, to cause one to know. -- To make one's self understood, to make one's meaning clear.

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. Milton.

To remove a veil; to reveal one's self.

To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her. [Colloq.]