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A gelding. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan. [Obs.] Latimer. The persecution was carried on against the gospelers with much fierceness by those of the Roman persuasion. Strype.

A step. See Gree, a step. [Obs.] The top of the ladder, or first greeze, is this. Latimer.

Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease. Mortimer.

Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. Mortimer.

A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. Mortimer.

To impregnate with hops. Mortimer.

To buzz; to murmur. [Obs.] Huzzing and burring in the preacher's ear. Latimer.

Inability; helplessness. [R.] Latimer. Logical impossibility, a condition or statement involving contradiction or absurdity; as, that a thing can be and not be at the same time. See Principle of Contradiction, under Contradiction.

To inaugurate. [Obs.] Latimer.

Not to be expected; inconceivable. [Obs.] "Inopinable, incredible . . . saings." Latimer.

Inquiry. [Obs.] Latimer.

; examination; inspection; investigation. As I could learn through earnest inquisition. Latimer. Let not search and inquisition quail To bring again these foolish runaways. Shak.

asy. [Obs.] Let us therefore learn not to be irksome when God layeth his cross upon us. Latimer.

emain unimpaired. If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep. Mortimer.

To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain. Mortimer.

One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc. Mortimer.

nts, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled. Cut hay when it begins to knot. Mortimer.

re archaic. Keats. Consider whether your doings be to the let of your salvation or not. Latimer.

ring which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district. Chaucer. Latimer.