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The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.

That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. Swift.

Firmly twisted in spinning.

te. [Colloq.] If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa).

Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [Archaic]

e ill or indisposed or in trouble. When he ails ever so little . . . he is so peevish. Richardson.

Sprightly; lively; brisk. Richardson.

Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs. [Colloq.] Richardson. The man of law began to get into his altitude. Sir W. Scott. Meridian altitude, an arc of the meridian intercepted between the south point on the horizon and any point on the meridian. See Meridian, 3.

-- with as or like. [Colloq. or Lowx] I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything. Richardson.

Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] Through many hard assays which did betide. Spenser.

among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. Richardson. In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd,…

To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.

A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships. The one being who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken. G. Eliot. The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith.

esh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb.

A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton cambric, and cambric muslin.

arpet knight. (a) A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person. Shak. (b) One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service. -- Carpet moth (Zoöl.), the larva of an insect which feeds on carpets and…

al adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp (Richardson's Dict. )

A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered. [Low] S. Richardson.

A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness. [Obs.] S. Richardson.