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To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter. Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain. Pope.

ility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment. The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. Clarendon. With perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne. Milton.

emplification; a case occurring; an example. Most remarkable instances of suffering. Atterbury.

To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body. Shak.

To place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. See Entomb.

To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb. The sepulcher Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned. Shak.

virtues they can not be, unless fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity. Atterbury.

e; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts.

A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper. Downing. Keeper of the forest (O. Eng. Law), an officer who had the principal government of all things relating to the forest. -- Keeper of the great seal, a high officer of state, who has custody of the great seal. The office is now united with that of…

A burying place. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A woman who makes laws. Shaftesbury.

t. Calamy. St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it. Atterbury.

A state of inaction or indifference. Europe lay then under a deep lethargy. Atterbury.

ling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity. " A spirit of levity and libertinism." Atterbury. He never employed his omnipotence out of levity. Calamy.

iberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it. Atterbury.

r a corpse before burial. [Prov Eng.] Chaucer. -- Lich wall, the wall of a churchyard or burying ground. -- Lich way, the path by which the dead are carried to the grave. [Prov. Eng.]

Evil speaking. [Obs.] Atterbury.

ought to be performed, requires this public manifestation of them at the great day. Atterbury.

tations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful,manner. Atterbury.

boy; a mere form. From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. Atterbury.