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Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.

imp. & p. p. of Sink. Sunk fence, a ditch with a retaining wall, used to divide lands without defacing a landscape; a ha-ha.

cted by art or nature as to constitute a part of it, as houses, or other superstructures, fences, trees, vines, etc.

se the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result Suppose they take offence without a cause. Shak. When we have as great assurance that a thing is, as we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not to make any doubt of its existence. Tillotson.

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.

is connected with a riposte; also, a series of quick attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.

Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.

To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The longer wood for making or mending fences. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

y a garment. -- To throw down, to subvert; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to throw down a fence or wall. -- To throw in. (a) To inject, as a fluid. (b) To put in; to deposit with others; to contribute; as, to throw in a few dollars to help make up a fund; to throw in an occasional comment. (c) To add without enumerati…

To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3. And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . . And fiddled in the timber! Tennyson.

tagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3.

e of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

Any injury or offence done to another. I you forgive all wholly this trespass. Chaucer. If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matt. vi. 15.

Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer. [Obs.] Walton.

To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence. I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures. Webster (1623).

A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.

ively by means of tendrils; -- called also woodbine, and American ivy. [U.S.] -- Virginia fence. See Worm fence, under Fence. -- Virginia nightingale (Zoöl.), the cardinal bird. See under Cardinal. -- Virginia quail (Zoöl.), the bobwhite. -- Virginia reel, an old English contradance; -- so called in the United State…