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st from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson (More's Utopia). Reject me not from among thy children. Wisdom ix. 4.

Renown. [Obs.] The glory and renowme of the ancectors. Robynson (More's Utopia).

effort, an order, or a poem. "I will repeat our former communication." Robynson (More's Utopia). Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish. Milton.

down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

art; a swashbuckler. [Obs.] That flock of stout, bragging rushbucklers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Scarcely; hardly. [Obs. or Colloq.] Robynson (More's Utopia)

southern sea lion (Otaria jubata) of the South American coast; the northern sea lion (Eumetopias Stelleri) found from California to Japan; and the black, or California, sea lion (Zalophus Californianus), which is common on the rocks near San Francisco.

To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. Milton.

[Obs.] Every kind of thing is laid up several in barns or storehoudses. Robynson (More's Utopia).

ve him to withstand. Spenser. A silly, innocent hare murdered of a dog. Robynson (More's Utopia).

A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.

used figuratively. So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness. Robynson (More's Utopia). They felt the smack of this world. Latimer.

pruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim. They be so smug and smooth. Robynson (More's Utopia). The smug and scanty draperies of his style. De Quincey. A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. Beau & Fl.

ns to speak. Shak. To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of. Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly. -- To speak well for, to commend; to be favorable to. -- To speak with, to converse with. "Would you speak with me" Shak.

. -- To stand in, to cost. "The same standeth them in much less cost." Robynson (More's Utopia). The Punic wars could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species. Burke. -- To stand in hand, to conduce to one's interest; to be serviceable or advantageous. -- To stand off. (a) To keep at a…

able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false. Robynson (more's Utopia).

Stony. [R.] "Possessed with stonish insensibility." Robynson (More's Utopia).

Power; influence. [Obs.] "Where money beareth [hath] all the stroke." Robynson (More's Utopia). He has a great stroke with the reader. Dryden.

A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.

Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.