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r. To shelter us from impressions of weather, we must spin, we must weave, we must build. Barrow.

especially honor God by improving diligently the talents which God hath committed to us. Barrow. A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved. Addison. The court seldom fails to improve the oppotunity. Blackstone. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. I. Watts. Those moments were di…

Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow.

Not complex; uncompounded; simple. Barrow.

rigible. The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. Barrow.

The quality of being indefectible. Barrow.

ailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.

nably; in a manner to remove all doubt. Oracles indubitably clear and infallibly certain. Barrow.

Want of evidence; obscurity. [Obs.] Barrow.

Unsuitableness; unaptness; unfitness; inability. [Obs.] Barrow.

In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning. Barrow.

One who lies in ambush. [Obs.] Barrow.

Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish. Barrow.

h a person appeareth in a far more honorable and invidious state than any prosperous man. Barrow.

Joviality. [R.] Barrow.

Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as jurisdictional rights. Barrow.

lter.] [Colloq.] If the organs of prayer be out of kelter or out of tune, how can we pray Barrow.

ion; sort; kind. Shak. There are in later other decrees, made by popes of another kidney. Barrow. Millions in the world of this man's kidney. L'Estrange. Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence. Burns.

Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. "A lame endeavor." Barrow. O, most lame and impotent conclusion! Shak. Lame duck (stock Exchange), a person who can not fulfill his contracts. [Cant]

grown. Swift. Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain Barrow.