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To shut; to close. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Wearing away; superficial waste. Tyndall.

In relation to sound or to hearing. Tyndall.

One versed in acoustics. Tyndall.

Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.

r; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.

o examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose. To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly. Tyndale.

aking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery. The aqueous vapor of the air. Tyndall.

l sense; frame or structure; workmanship. The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.

of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth. Tyndale.

Inability to transmit radiant; impermeability to heat. Tyndall.

a clamor; to make importunate outcries. They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. Tyndale. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.

That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. Shak. The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes. Tyndale (Matt. viii. 20).

sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.

Against. [Obs.] Tyndale [1. Cor. iv. 4].

heat info kight; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall.

on. T. Fuller Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; -- an old proverb. Tyndale. To claw away, to scold or revile. "The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it." L'Estrange. To claw (one) on the back, to tickle; to express approbation. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To claw (one) on the g…

ed. No better nor more cogent reason. Dr. H. More. Proofs of the most cogent description. Tyndall. The tongue whose strains were cogent as commands, Revered at home, and felt in foreign lands. Cowper.

. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.