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Rarely; seldom. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Seldom. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rarely; not often; not frequently. Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. Hooker.

Rareness. Hooker.

Seldom seen. [Obs.] Drayton.

Rarely shown or exhibited. [Obs.] Shak.

To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. [Obs.] Fuller.

The mistletoe. [Obs.] Baret.

Not seldom; frequently. [R.]

ss of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden.

Of no particular kind or character; anomalous. Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare. -- A*mor"phous*ly, adv. -- A*mor"phous*ness, n.

One who goes before; a predecessor. The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys.

Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism. [R.] Selden.

of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb.

re incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba…

gain; to covenant. [R.] Then he articled with her that he should go away when he pleased. Selden.

that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer. Shak.

A short wooden club having a deeply concave face, seldom used.

Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards. "Bardish impostures." Selden.

heat; to deceive. She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.