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One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner. Mourners were provided to attend the funeral. L'Estrange.

Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.

rvices performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier. Where only merit constant pay receives. Pope. There is neither pay nor plunder to be got. L'Estrange. Full pay, the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay; especially, the…

One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. Thackeray.

To carry; to bear; to transport. [Obs.] They are easily ported by boat into other shires. Fuller.

A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire.

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter." Lev. xix. 29.

One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of repentance . . . The trembling among the listening crowd caused or con…

parks of nature To quit this horrid act. Shak. Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. Fairfax.

of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.

an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc. Chaucer. Piers Plowman.

To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor. A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense. Addison.

To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye. Spenser.

longer ryme." Chaucer. There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride. Pope.

or each article manufactured; or, a percentage paid to the owner of an article by one who hires the use of it.

A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon. Dana.

regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire. This is hire and salary, not revenge. Shak.

Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire. "Sapphirine degree of hardness." Boyle.

A hired mourner at a funeral. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.