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olloq.] He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. De Quincey.

The drawing of a bowstring. [Obs.] She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught. Spenser.

dence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive. We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history. Burke.

; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. Luke xvii. 8. He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. Job xxi. 20. Drink of the cup that can not cloy. Keble.

k. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. Hawthorne.

ase; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

ose; thus the phrase so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.

To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do. Elf all my hair in knots. Shak.

To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars. Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. Spenser.

To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser.

to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations.

ces which calls for immediate action or remedy; pressing necessity; exigency. To whom she might her doubts propose, On all emergencies that rose. Swift. A safe counselor in most difficult emergencies. Brougham.

According to; conformably to. [Obs.] Chaucer. Emforth my might, so far as lies in my power. [Obs.]

nclusive event; consequence. My guilt be on my head, and there an end. Shak. O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak.

Complete termination. [R.] That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shak.

melting; to endure wind and weather. Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure. Dryden.

ct to; constraint; force applied. The rewards and punishment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law. Locke.

To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser.

To be twisted or twined. With whose imperial laurels might entwine no cypress. De Quincey.

pate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors. This, although now an old an inveterate evil, might be eradicated by vigorous treatment. Southey.