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ese kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. Sir M. Hale.

The district to which a constable's power is limited. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

rst composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance. Sir M. Hale

any of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale.

They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants. Hales.

rvices reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale.

Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

ry or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato. The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. Goldsmith.

gland, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another. Sir M. Hale.

The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.

n a fresh, unwilted condition. It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years. Leigh Hunt.

A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.

A dandy roller. See below. Dandy brush, a yard whalebone brush. -- Dandy fever. See Dengue. -- Dandy line, a kind of fishing line to which are attached several crosspieces of whalebone which carry a hook at each end. -- Dandy roller, a roller sieve used in machines for making paper, to press out water from the pulp,…

y frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale. It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope.

A flowing; also, a hostile incursion. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

The act of yielding; surrender. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

The pilot whale or blackfish.

To leave out of account; to omit. [Obs.] Defaulting unnecessary and partial discourses. Hales.

ses; to fortify. [Obs.] [Written also defence.] Better manned and more strongly defensed. Hales.

The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the defloration of the English laws. Sir M. Hale.