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An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.

ents by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward.

Allurement. [R.] Hayward.

To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. Ships . . . appareled to fight. Hayward.

The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.

ish, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward.

Approbation. I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward.

The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia. [Obs.] Hayward.

ities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. Cessation of arms (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes.

To write in occult characters. His notes he ciphered with Greek characters. Hayward.

One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward.

to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. Hayward.

Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. [Obs.] "Dispel dampy throughts." Haywards.

or conclusion of an affair. Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward.

e or egg on. [Obs.] By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. Hayward.

Mutual talk or conversation; conference. [Obs.] Sir J. Hayward.

One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.

See Scout. [Obs.] Hayward.

To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose. [R.] Hayward.

An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.