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An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. [Eng.]

A class or order; sort; kind. [Obs.] His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.

A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

re, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine. In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort . . . makes use of wooden clogs. Harvey. Clog almanac, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square piece of wood, brass, or bon…

Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.

To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions. Raymond.

o repress; to curb. Burke. Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort. Ayliffe.

well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

in; as, you can't come any tricks here. [Slang] To come it, to succeed in a trick of any sort. [Slang]

n the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner. The companions of his fall. Milton. The companion of fools shall smart for it. Prov. xiii. 20 (Rev. Ver. ) Here are your sons again; and I must lose Two of the sweetest companions in the world. Shak. A companion i…

fied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. Burke.

To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with. [Obs.] The malcontented sort That never can the present state comport. Daniel.

, to compound a medicine. Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort. Sir W. Scott.

That which connects or joins together; bond; tie. Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things. I. Taylor.

ge; to commit; to intrust. Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. Addison.

eaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense. Any person . . . might, by the sort of construction that would be put on this act, become liable to the penalties of treason. Hallam. Strictly, the term [construction] signifies determining the meaning and proper effect of language by a consideration of the sub…

One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.

r clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecution. Hammond. A sort of men who . . . attend its [the curch of England's] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon. Swift.

A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.

which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. [Obs.] It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor. L'Estrange. I'll go in couples with her. Shak.