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To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

The teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-88), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people. (b) Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French tran…

doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects. Raw and indigested, heterodox, preaching. Strype.

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings. Hippocratic face Etym: [L. facies Hippocratica], the change produced in the countenance by death, or long sickness, excessive evacuations, excessive hunger, and the like. The nose is pinched, the eyes are sunk, the temples hollow, the ears cold and retracted, the sk…

munity of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called Brethren of St. Joseph. The Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. Addis & Arnold. -- Holy-cross day, the fourteenth of September, observed as a church festival, in memory of…

The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them.

; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer. Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! Shak.

Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee. These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments. Dan. iii. 21. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Shak.

the free state, but in an orange-yellow water solution, which is a strong reducing and bleaching agent. Called also hydrosulphurous acid.

Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty. Byron. There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence. Rambler.

The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached; as:

reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence. [Obs.] Chapman. When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto the high apostles, they could improve nothing. Tyndale.

A teaching and impressing by frequent repetitions. Bp. Hall.

Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc. Indirect claims, claims for remote or consequential damage. Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the United States by the Confederate States c…

The act of attaching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation.

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.

sibilons), of St. Vincent Islands. -- Invisible green, a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mistaken for it.

Having equal, or almost equal, authority with the apostles of their teachings.