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w laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice. Robynson (More's Utopia).

e them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

figures. Hence, presenting many questions or subjects for consideration; as, a many-sided topic.

A poem. [Obs.] Robynson (More's Utopia).

arce by De Brueys, revenons à nos moutons let us return to our sheep.] To return to one's topic, subject of discussion, etc. [Humorous] I willingly return to my muttons. H. R. Haweis.

Newfangledness. [Obs.] Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson (More's Utopia).

y the merchandise. Ezek. xxvii. 9. Not able to occupy their old crafts. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.

; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. "Within one pale or hedge." Robynson (More's Utopia).

A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.

hawk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger pigeon (Zoöl.), the common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on account of its extensive migrations.

tain: the tope. -- Penny father, a penurious person; a niggard. [Obs.] Robinson (More's Utopia). -- Penny grass (Bot.), pennyroyal. [R.] -- Penny post, a post carrying a letter for a penny; also, a mail carrier. -- Penny wise, wise or prudent only in small matters; saving small sums while losing larger; -- used chie…

bone with. See under Bone. -- To pick a thank, to curry favor. [Obs.] Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To pick off. (a) To pluck; to remove by picking. (b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy. -- To pick out. (a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines o…

To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.

s possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach. Robynson (More's Utopia) . Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall. Shak.

To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.

p by personal title; property. [Obs.] "Onles this propriety be exiled." Robynson (More's Utopia). So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord, and yet all are for her provisions, it being a part of his need to refresh and supply hers. Jer. Taylor.

by the exclamation " Pshaw!" The goodman used regularly to frown and pshaw wherever this topic was touched upon. Sir W. Scott.

To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.

compensation for; to atone for; to pay for. God recompenseth the gift. Robynson (More's Utopia). To recompense My rash, but more unfortunate, misdeed. Milton.