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What may be got without skill or merit. Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. Shak.

One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.

A Greek or Armenian who has visited the holy sepulcher at Jerusalem. Heyse.

A sacred government; by holy orders of men. Southey.

Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Pope.

Holy doom; the Last Day. [R.] Shipley.

To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. Milton. In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [Ge…

lly, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.

To adjure; to beseech; to entreat. [Obs.] O dere child, I halse thee, In virtue of the Holy Trinity. Chaucer.

Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh. Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things. Milton.

gings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc. Hung be the heavens with black. Shak. And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils. Dryden.

podent. Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. Dryden. Heartless and melancholy. W. Irwing.

A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.

A rank or order of holy beings. Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. Milton.

A sacred or holy work or worship. [Obs.] Waterland.

On account of the abuse of its powers it was abolished in 1641. -- High day (Script.), a holy or feast day. John xix. 31. -- High festival (Eccl.), a festival to be observed with full ceremonial. -- High German, or High Dutch. See under German. -- High jinks, an old Scottish pastime; hence, noisy revelry; wild spor…

So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.

Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish. [Colloq.] When we are hipped or in high spirits. R. L. Stevenson.

iversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.

Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.