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In a grounded or firmly established manner. Glanvill.

acksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

A derisive cry or shout. Glanvill.

The pointed beak of an anvil.

To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish. We hug deformities if they bear our names. Glanvill.

Incapable of slipping, or of error. [R.] Morally immutable and illapsable. Glanvill.

An imaginer. [Obs.] Glanvill.

ple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination. Glanvill. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present. Bacon.

To render immaterial or incorporeal. Immateralized spirits. Glanvill.

An impelling power or force. Glanvill.

That which impregnates. [R.] Glanvill.

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill.

or the other, from the designs of a sort of beings with whom we so little communicate. Glanvill.

An anvil.

eing eluded or evaded; unvoidable. Most pressing reasons and ineludible demonstrations. Glanvill.

itable; improper; unbecoming. The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries. Glanvill.

Without error, mistake, or deviation; unerringly. Glanvill.

rtion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke.

Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable. Glanvill.

Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive. [Obs.] Glanvill.