Search the Dictionary

ondition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. Dampier.

hich we properly believe, be only such as are received on the credit of divine testimony. Hooker.

An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.

Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering. T. Hook.

a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. Pope.

A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. Crochet hook, Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.

implement having a bent or crooked end. Especially: (a) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep. (b) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral stafu. He left his crook, he left his flocks. Prior.

An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. Dunglison.

s; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assist a rector or vicar Hook. All this the good old man performed alone, He spared no pains, for curate he had none. Dryden.

A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

kind of fishing line to which are attached several crosspieces of whalebone which carry a hook at each end. -- Dandy roller, a roller sieve used in machines for making paper, to press out water from the pulp, and set the paper.

f existence. Shairp. What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain. Hooker. What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word Shak.

t is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope.

ave defrauded no man. 2 Cor. vii. 2. Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights. Hooker.

Not hasty or sudden; slow. Hooker. His enunciation was so deliberate. W. Wirt.

r conclusively. "Demonstrative figures." Dryden. An argument necessary and demonstrative. Hooker.

d or naturalized occupants. There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds. J. D. Hooker.

A gift or offering to God. [Obs.] Wherein that blessed widow's deodate was laid up. Hooker.

; -- usually with from. If we did derogate from them whom their industry hath made great. Hooker. It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity. Burke.

genealogy; a generation. No man living is a thousand descents removed from Adam himself. Hooker.