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; sing. Ourself (we; also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective case. We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal further then we usually do. Locke. Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand. Dryden.

legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.…

A game at cards, called "High, Low, Jack, and the Game."

A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.

The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.

An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

onfluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale.

act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7.

Hunted; as, a coursed hare.

One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound. Hanmer.

A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent. In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds. Bacon

r; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak.

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward.

ue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden.

Four times twenty; eighty.

each side playing but one ball, the partners striking alternately. It is called a mixed foursome when each side consists of a man and a woman.

Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.

Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day. Lo! where the rosy-blosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear. Gray.