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That which is distributed. "Our charitable distributions." Atterbury.

draw you before the judgment seats James ii. 6. The arrow is now drawn to the head. Atterbury.

Dull; stupid. " Drowsy reasoning." Atterbury.

To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up. The miser earths his treasure, and the thief, Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon. Young. Why this in earthing up a carcass R. Blair.

To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. Spenser.

One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury.

One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.

To deposit in the grave; to bury. [Obs.] "Their corses to engrave." Spenser.

To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume. Hooker.

The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. Barrow.

To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern. Donne.

e instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision. Atterbury.

; explanation; exposition; interpretation. The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury.

nger or train. Also used adverbially. A messenger sent express from the other world. Atterbury. Express color. (Law) See the Note under Color, n., 8.

Tumult; discord; dissension. They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves. Clarendon.

er in God, a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York. -- Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child. -- Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father. -- Spiritual father. (a) A religious teacher or guid…

ul or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing. the felicities of her wonderful reign. Atterbury.

To make, or to describe as, female or feminine. Shaftesbury.

ve or hate; excessive warmth; consumingviolence of temper. he had fire in his temper.Atterbury.

or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.