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Seldom. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

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

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

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

he practice was abolished by law in 1836. There was [formerly] some sense for commendams. Selden. Partnership in commendam. See under Partnership.

To lead forth. [A Latinism] He should hither deduce a colony. Selden.

ngs that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

Ado; bustle; stir; to do. [R.] A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble. Selden.

To deprive of uthority. [Obs.] Selden.

A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name. Selden.

A brisk, gay man. [Obs.] Selden is a galliard by himself. Cleveland.

at was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken. Selden.

l with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden.

An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. [R.] "A mere gullery." Selden.

d for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out. Selden.

The office of a herald. Selden.

To entitle; to give a title to. Selden.

An idol; a puppet; a doll. [Obs.] Selden. Shak.

A poem of eight lines. [Obs.] Selden