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A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron- headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.

rom the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. Hooker.

eading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. [Eng.] Hook. And like unlettered clerk still cry "Amen". Shak.

One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] Hook.

imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch (Naut.) See under Hitch. -- Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

magnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son]. Hooker.

adv. Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice. Hooker.

To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [Obs.] They shook off their bridles and began to colt. Spenser.

[Obs.] Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker.

A woman invested with authority to command. Hooker.

ir own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker.

The majority or bulk of mankind. [Obs.] Hooker.

mmunion of saints. We are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others. Hooker. What communion hath light with darkness 2 Cor. vi. 14. Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man. South.

ment there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old. Hooker.

o shut up; to inclose. [Obs.] The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave. Hooker.

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d for the fulfillment of their Christian duties, by the grace therein bestowed upon them. Hook.

ompact. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. Milton.

doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ Hooker. A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. Sir P. Sidney.

t conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.