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obedience or compliance; -- said of persons. Very discerning and prompt in giving orders. Clarendon. Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at's feet. Shak. Any you, perhaps, too prompt in your replies. Dryden.

rt or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy. Clarendon. Weak we are, and can not shun pursuit. Shak.

ad those qualities of horsemanship, dancing, and fencing which accompany a good breeding. Clarendon.

fied his own clemency, now they were at his mercy, to offer them quarter for their lives. Clarendon. Cocks and lambs . . . at the mercy of cats and wolves . . . must never expect better quarter. L'Estrange.

fice; to raise the price, and the like. This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. Clarendon. The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. Sir W. Temple.

The step of a ladder; a rung. Clarendon.

erciful. Calamy. Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come up soon enough. Clarendon.

To confirm anew. Clarendon.

usoe Macaulay. Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant. Clarendon. From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. W. Irving.

t. The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough. Clarendon.

to a place. [R.] Chaucer. The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses. Clarendon.

Sir John Hotham was to die, a reprieve was sent to suspend the execution for three days. Clarendon.

elf for help, relief, or advantage. The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. Clarendon.

oiment; to abridge. Though they two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty. Clarendon.

ship, he should llevy money, and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use. Clarendon.

ually with up. They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. Clarendon. For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely. Milton.

h measures or actions. On the rough edge of battle. Milton. A quicker and rougher remedy. Clarendon. Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces. Locke.

that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. Clarendon.

isk. He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them. Clarendon.

ce. Swift. They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. Clarendon. --- Sense"less*ly, adv. -- Sense"less*ness, n.