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The state of being a master; hence, disposition to command or hector. C. Bronté.

The state of being a matron.

To choose wrongly. Milton.

The character or condition of a monk. Atterbury.

A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite.

The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.

f being or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton.

A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.

That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.

To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond. Bacon. Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark. Norris.

To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South.

The state of being a page.

The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.

A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed. [Obs.] Carew.

One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached. J. Knowles.

A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing. "I long to be spelling her Arabic scrawls and pothooks." Dryden.

Apprenticehood. [Obs.] This jolly prentice with his master bode Till he was out nigh of his prenticehood. Chaucer.

The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. Bk. of Com. Prayer.

Princeliness. [Obs.] E. Hall.