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ssage in other language. We are put to construe and paraphrase our own words. Bp. Stillingfleet.

In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes. Bp. Stillingfleet.

as, a participation in joy or sorrows. These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of himself! Atterbury.

A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure. [Spain & Portugal]

ness in a future state; future misery or eternal death. The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. Shak. If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition. J. M. Mason.

or thing). "His own parents his perverters." South. "A perverter of his law." Bp. Stillingfleet.

To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling. [Slang] Smart. He's pigeoned and undone. Observer.

takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.

, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.

An army or fleet. [Obs.] Shak.

lementary religious instruction. The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To go in pursuit; to follow. The wicked flee when no man pursueth. Prov. xxviii. 1. Men hotly pursued after the objects of their ambition. Earle.

Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear. Milton.

n was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

upon an accuser. It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently toBp. Stillingfleet.

o strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. [Written also reinforce.]

nal troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet.

To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit.

One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.

Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment. The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough. Clarendon.