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necessities of the ship, the vessel, freight, or cargo is made liable for its repayment, provided the ship arrives in safety. It is usually effected by a bottomry bond. See Bottomry.

To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements. The chief mechanical requisites of the barometer are implemented in such an instrument as the following. Nichol.

it manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence. Not to dispute the methods of his providence, but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. Atterbury.

To invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone.

Improvidence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Serving to kindle or set on fire. [R.] Part incentive reed Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire. Milton.

h we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement. R. P. Ward.

To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents.

A heresy consisting in an unconcern for any particular creed, provided the morals be right and good. Gregory XVI.

o acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce. Providence would only initiate mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry. Dr. H. More. To initiate his pupil into any part of learning, an ordinary skill in the governor is enough.…

great activity, scrambled in at a high window. Johnson. Curiosity in children nature has provided, to remove that ignorance they were born with; which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull. Locke.

Arranged; furnished; provided. [Obs.] "He had neither ship instruct with oars, nor men." Chapman.

Provided with necessary interpolations; as, an interpolated table.

Provided with interstices; having interstices between; situated at intervals.

To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate. The fingers are jointed together for motion. Ray.

interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this.

A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment. "Judgments are prepared for scorners." Prov. xix. 29. "This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble." Shak.

stice, propriety, or duty. That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government. E. Everett.

To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill.

arent; hidden; springs of action. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. Burke. Latent buds (bot.), buds which remain undeveloped or dormant for a long time, but may at length grow. Latent heat (Physics), that quantity of heat which disappears or becomes concealed in a body…