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One who is lame; a cripple. [Obs.] Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is. Donne.

llision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. Addison.

To supply with cups of wine. [R.] Cup us, till the world go round. Shak.

Any curiosity or article of virtu. The busy world, which does not hunt poets as collectors hunt for curios. F. Harrison.

A small or short course. Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next. Sir T. Browne.

n the bed curtains, or in bed. Jerrold. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. W. Irving. -- The curtain falls, the performance closes. -- The curtain rises, the performance begins. -- To draw the curtain, to close ot over an object, or to remo…

To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

d; ignorant. The age wherin he lived was dark, but he Cobld not want light who taught the world oto see. Denhan. The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediæval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night. Hallam.

ing beams do daze his feeble eyen. Spenser. Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world. Sir H. Taylor. He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest. Dickens.

ess of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.

e ru "The decrees of Venice." Sh There went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. Luke ii. 1. Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree Shak.

to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak.

God, as the Maker of the world.

ation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon. Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon. Milton.

The belief in demons or false gods. The established theology of the heathen world . . . rested upon the basis of demonism. Farmer.

To quit this world; to die. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. Luke ii. 29. To depart with, to resign; to part with. [Obs.] Shak.

Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation. A trial which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. J. H. Newman.

vil. Luke iv. 2. That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. Rev. xii. 9.

h a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. South.

To those Jews who, after the Exile, were scattered through the Old World, and afterwards to Jewish Christians living among heathen. Cf. James i.1.