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Pathless. [R.] "The smooth, unpathwayed plain." Wordsworth.

Not prayed for. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Not used to travel; as, colts that are unwayed. [Obs.] Suckling.

One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.

Used to the way; broken. [R.] A horse that is not well wayed; he starts at every bird that flies out the hedge. Selden.

One who waylays another.

A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

ator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.

A player on the accordion.

The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. Grove. Chose in action. (Law) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.…

A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak.

A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

ormances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor.

as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

The form of oath or appeal. Persons who . . . made use of prayer and adjurations. Addison.

Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

In time past; formerly. "He prayed . . . as he did aforetime." Dan. vi. 10.

Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.