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t which clears up and removes difficulties, and makes the mind certain or determined. Bp. Burnet.

Intended to reverse; implying reversal. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

Severity; rigor. [Obs. orR.] Bp. Burnet.

To be boisterous; to be disorderly. It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance. Bp. Burnet.

s; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water. More unequal than the roughest sea. T. Burnet.

with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad. Salad burnet (Bot.), the common burnet (Poterium Sanguisorba), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy.

The act of consecrating, or of setting apart, for a sacred purpose; consecration. Bp. Burnet.

us Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions. Burnet saxifrage, a European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga). -- Golden saxifrage, a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) growing in rivulets in Europe; also, C. Americanum, common in the United Stat…

pare off, as a surface. "If all the mountaines were scaled, and the earth made even." T. Burnet.

h had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body. T. Burnet.

dvance; to propose as truth or for reception; as, to set up a new opinion or doctrine. T. Burnet. (h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune; as, this good fortune quite set him up. (i) To intoxicate. [Slang] (j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for prin…

owers in corymbs. -- Sheep pest (Bot.), an Australian plant (Acæna ovina) related to the burnet. The fruit is covered with barbed spines, by which it adheres to the wool of sheep. -- Sheep run, an extensive tract of country where sheep range and graze. -- Sheep's beard (Bot.), a cichoraceous herb (Urospermum Dalecha…

Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. T. Burnet.

to skip a lesson. They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters. Bp. Burnet.

iewed in may mind, so far as I was able, the beginning and progress of a rising world. T. Burnet. He is very much in Sir Roger's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than dependent. Addison.

To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. [R.] Bp. Burnet.

the side. He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy. Bp. Burnet.

ship to an enemy. That the English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas. Bp. Burnet.

A stumbling-block. This stumbling-stone we hope to take away. T. Burnet.

A public sale or auction. [R.] Bp. Burnet.