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pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

lk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show. [Cant or Slang, U.S.] All that flourish about right of search was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly.…

A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame. [Obs.] Johnson.

A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.

Perishable; frail; transitory. [Obs.] Hickes. The caduke pleasures of his world. Bp. Fisher.

call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. Gay.

y 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. -- Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a dishop to traveling clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them from heretics. -- Canoni…

upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates. The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. Macaulay.

would not care a pin, if the other three were in. Shak. Master, carest thou not that we perish Mark. iv. 38. To care for. (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of.

plish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and sunk." Shak. -- To cast by, to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away. -- To cast down, to throw down; to destroy; to deject or…

One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church. (b) A privy. (Law) -- Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. -- To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. S…

A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.

ulness. [Obs.] There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.

A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.

A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used. Wright. Nares.

A secret society of Irish Fenians founded in Philadelphia in 1881.

A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. [Eng.] Hook. And like unlettered clerk still cry "Amen". Shak.