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is attendance on divine offices a matter of formality and custom, but of conscience. Atterbury.

To bury with funeral rites. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of burying with funeral rites. [Obs.] Knatchbull.

o blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. Saintsbury.

tsoever we employ in charitable uses during our lives, is given away from ourselves. Atterbury. -- To give back, to return; to restore. Atterbury. -- To give the bag, to cheat. [Obs.] I fear our ears have given us the bag. J. Webster. -- To give birth to. (a) To bear or bring forth, as a child. (b) To originate; to gi…

sk him to read , instead of taking the traditional witticisms about Lee for gospel. Saintsbury.

's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty. Swift.Saintsbury.-- A grain of allowance, a slight indulgence or latitude a small allowance. -- Grain binder, an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain into sheaves. -- Grain colors, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect. --…

To entomb; to bury. [Obs.] Chaucer. Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. Shak.

See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.

decline. -- To stand one's ground, to stand firm; to resist attack or encroachment. Atterbury. -- To take the ground to touch bottom or become stranded; -- said of a ship.

or censure. They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I. Atterbury.

d used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt. This brandish'dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast. Dryden.

Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained. Atterbury.

hurch of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days. Atterbury.

attempt to hedge between the parties than . . . to gain favor from the Roundheads. Saintsbury.

The office of an historiographer. Saintsbury.

, adv. -- Hog"gish*ness, n. Is not a hoggish life the height of some men's wishes Shaftesbury.

rtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury.

it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing," "warlike." T. R. Lounsbury.

s generous adversaries . . . and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. Atterbury. He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. Crabb.