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i. To cover. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kerchief. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Typhus fever.

More agreeable; more pleasing. [Obs.] Chaucer. To be lever than. See Had as lief, under Had.

The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a poin…

A hare in the first year of its age.

A lark. [Scot.]

The American hop hornbeam (Ostrya Virginica), a small tree with very tough wood.

A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.

Same as Miniver.

One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion. Shak.

Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future. Shak. Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. Pope.

Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.

Nevertheless. [Obs.]

in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11.

To persevere. [Obs.]

The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun. "The king-becoming graces . . . perseverance, mercy, lowliness." Shak. Whose constant perseverance overcame Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. Milton.

Persevering. [R.] "Perseverant faith." Whitby. -- Per`se*ver"ant*ly, adv. [R.]

o give or abandon what is undertaken. Thrice happy, if they know Their happiness, and persevere upright. Milton.

Characterized by perseverance; persistent. -- Per`se*ver"ing*ly, adv.