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The act of playing as a fielder.

ere; 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.

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

ason; 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.

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

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

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

ient 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.

To think; to suppose. I will not believe so meanly of you. Fielding. To believe in. (a) To believe that the subject of the thought (if a person or thing) exists, or (if an event) that it has occurred, or will occur; -- as, to believe in the resurrection of the dead. "She does not believe in Jupiter." J. H. Newman. (b)…

To be vexed or annoyed. Fielding.

mmonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. He had lost a cool hundred. Fielding. Leaving a cool thousand to Mr.Matthew Pocket. Dickens.

cture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.

To transfer by draft. All her rents been drafted to London. Fielding.

r is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. "But sermons are mere drugs." Fielding. And virtue shall a drug become. Dryden.

uddenly withdraw. Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub. Fielding.

r without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you. "Each of the combatants." Fielding.

A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] Fielding. Will is an old file spite of his smooth face. Thackeray. Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See under Bastard, Cross, etc. -- Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. -- File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. -…

To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.] Fielding.