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Deceitful; deceptive. Glanvill.

A jester; a droll. [Obs.] Glanvill.

A droll. [R.] Glanvill.

To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of. Glanvill.

weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.

mall a degree of elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real. Glanvill.

rrence; a sudden occasion. Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency. Glanvill.

surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. Sir W. Raleigh.

mply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship. H. Spencer.

To undertake. [Obs.] Sackville.

That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Shak.

That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. The hope of everlasting enjoyments. Glanvill.

ly, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. South.

The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. Glanvill.

To pierce; to thrill. [Obs.] Sackville.

Of equal weight on both sides; balanced. [Obs.] Glanvill.

st estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive. "Some eternal villain." The Eternal City, an appellation of Rome.

To overthrow or subvert. [Obs.] Glanvill.

ds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc. ; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours. Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days. Shak. Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Pope.