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s, in the time of his limitation, preached many times, and had one sermon at all times. Latimer.

Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair. Mortimer.

An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.[Eng.] Latimer.

To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. Mortimer.

That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Shak. Mortimer.

e lawyers do use, in deferring and prolonging of matters and actions from term to term. Latimer.

To list; to like. [Obs.] Chaucer. " Do so if thou lust. " Latimer.

Josh. viii. 15. My lord of London maketh as though he were greatly displeased with me. Latimer. -- To make at, to go toward hastily, or in a hostile manner; to attack. -- To make away with. (a) To carry off. (b) To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate. (c) To kill; to destroy. -- To make off, to go aw…

To become malt; also, to make grain into malt. Mortimer.

a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas"ur*a*bly, adv. Yet do it measurably, as it becometh Christians. Latimer.

Weather prove frosty to mellow it [the ground], they do not plow it again till April. Mortimer. The fervor of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age. J. C. Shairp.

to. Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit. Mortimer. You mend the jewel by the wearing it. Shak.

our; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. [Obs.] Latimer.

A hotchpotch. [Obs.] Latimer.

To diminish; to lessen. The living of poor men thereby minished. Latimer.

A little elevation of earth made by a mole; a molehill. Mortimer.

A collective body of monks. [Obs.] Though he have a whole monkery to sing for him. Latimer.

Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish. Mortimer. As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.

Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. [Obs.] Spenser. Mucky money and false felicity. Latimer.

ew theories or fashions. "Newfangled teachers." 1 Tim. vi. (heading). "Newfangled men." Latimer.