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To make worldly or unspiritual. Bp. Horsley.

n a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility. C. Kingsley.

-- To serve one out, to retaliate upon; to requite. "I'll serve you out for this." C. Kingsley. -- To serve one right, to treat, or cause to befall one, according to his deserts; -- used commonly of ill deserts; as, it serves the scoundrel right; -- To serve one's self of, to avail one's self of; to make use of. [A Ga…

A portion of a stream where the water runs very rapidly. [Prov. Eng.] C. Kingsley.

here were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure. C. Kingsley.

See Skean. C. Kingsley.

A weaver's reed; a sley.

right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope. On the side of younder slanting hill. Dodsley.

To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.

To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie. Shak.

Infectious; catching. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] H. Kingsley.

To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting. H. Kingsley.

A tailor. [Slang] Nares. C. Kingsley.

Snobs, collectively. [Hybrid & Recent] C. Kingsley.

ss knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty, their pet subject. C. Kingsley.

also spinney, and spinny.] The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies. C. Kingsley.

Relating to spodomancy, or divination by means of ashes. C. Kingsley.

rting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. -- Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like. -- Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in wh…

A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.

One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously. [Eng.] C. Kingsley.