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; a transcript; a counterpart. I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch. Sir W. Temple.

Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily. Sir W. Temple.

th a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

ofty; a high ground or place; a height. Without either eminences or cavities. Dryden. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. Burke.

most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death. Sir W. Temple.

building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine. A straight, long entry to the temple led. Dryden.

, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned. The foundation of Solomon's temple is conjectured by Ideler to have been an era. R. S. Poole.

y said of her two companions, that one was more amiable, the other more estimable. Sir W. Temple.

Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant. And fires eternal in thy temple shine. Dryden.

To make even or level; to level; to lay smooth. His temple Xerxes evened with the soil. Sir. W. Raleigh. It will even all inequalities Evelyn.

e, expensive, indefatigable goodness. Sprat. The idle and expensive are dangerous. Sir W. Temple.

Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.

A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church. [Poet.] Such to this British Isle, her Christian fanes. Wordsworth.

rendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple.

Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. [Obs.] Farquhar.

To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fal to an even surface. Sir W. Temple.

A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.

To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room. She fumed the temple with an odorous flame. Dryden.

Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.