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Fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

The act of playing as a fielder.

formerly used also of the human male. They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).

A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron. [Scot.]

Power; authority; rule. [Obs.] To have them in your might and in your wielding. Chaucer.

Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying (Law), the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill.

e; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. Fielding.

Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. He waxeth at your abode here. Fielding.

Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott.

Containing or yielding an acid.

By day, or every day; in the daytime. [Obs.] Fielding.

on; against law; to run a race against time. The gate would have been shut against her. Fielding. An argument against the use of steam. Tyndale.

In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding.

A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.

Characterized by wrangling; scolding. [R.] Fielding.

Yielding anthracite; as, anthraciferous strata.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times a day. Fielding.

nt that the very fact hath its foundation in truth, as I do seriously aver is the case. Fielding. Then all averred I had killed the bird. Coleridge.