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tions; household. [Colloq.] Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. Thackeray.

ivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim. Shak. With a native bent did good pursue. Dryden.

by testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.] I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak.

ing light; excited or exasperated. -- Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." Poem in Essex dialect.

f vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. Her beauty all the rest did blind. P. Fletcher.

The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it. Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.

ndition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.

In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.

That which seduces; seduction; allurement. Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everAkenside.

Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.

To rise or stand erect, like bristles. His hair did bristle upon his head. Sir W. Scott.

Treated with bromides and iodides.

A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.

To shield; to defend. [Obs.] Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right, Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree Shak.

an American soldier of the Revolutionary war. Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, An' did the buckskins claw, man. Burns.

to walk away. I'll not budge an inch, boy. Shak. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. Shak.

Base or uncurrent coin. [Obs.] And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, And damm for bullion, go for current now. Sylvester.

be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever. Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way Luke xxiv. 32. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. Shak. Burning with high hope. Byron. The groan still deepens, and the combat b…

A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow. With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces. Bunyan.