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A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.

uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible. "A marvelous fair-spoken man." Hooker.

Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness. Hooker. Winged with fervor of her love. Shak.

Fuel. [Obs.] Hooker.

rence to truth; veracity; honesty. The principal thing required in a witness is fidelity. Hooker.

e, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish. Pope. The sword which is made fiery. Hooker. Fiery cross, a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms. Sir W. Scott.

od's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. Hooker.

m the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

on, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other. Hooker.

youth. The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain. Hooker. The flower of the chivalry of all Spain. Southey. A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats of arms. Tennyson.

low the perfections of them whom we like not, than in defects resemble them whom we love. Hooker.

is, that God, for the worthiness of his Son, would, notwithstanding, vouchsafe to grant. Hooker.

ong and forcible. Shak. That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin. Hooker. He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented. Lowth (Transl. )

To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.

To prize or rate beforehand. [Obs.] Hooker.

tand formally divided against the authorized guides of the church and rest of the people. Hooker.

The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.

In a fuming manner; angrily. "They answer fumingly." Hooker.

The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker.

amely, seven generations. Baruch vi. 3. All generations and ages of the Christian church. Hooker.