(adv.) In grief; amiss.

(n.) Scurf.

(n.) The nape of the neck; the loose outside skin, as of the back of the neck.

(v. t.) To make a daff or fool of.

(n.) Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.

(v. t.) Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.

(n.) Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.

(n.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

(n.) The thing believed; the object of belief.

(n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

(n.) A banker, or changer of money.

(n.) Rubbish. Specifically: (a) Dross or refuse of metals. [Obs.] (b) Light, dry wood, or stuff used for fuel.

(pron.) I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself.

(n.) A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833).

(n.) The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound.

(n.) Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares.

(v. t.) To make a list of duties on, as goods.

(n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.

(n.) Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry.

(n.) That which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort, uneasiness, etc.; that which gives succor, aid, or comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of duty by taking the place of another; a relay.

(n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant.

(n.) The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on which it is formed.

(n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure.

(n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.

(n.) The elevations and surface undulations of a country.

(n.) Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.

(n.) Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.

(v. t.) To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.

(v. t.) To strip off the roof or covering of, as a house.

(pron.) The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself.

(n. pl.) Ourselves.

(v. t.) To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.

(n.) A member of an Arab princely family descended from Mohammed through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima. The Grand Shereef is the governor of Mecca.

(adv.) Of this; concerning this; from this; hence.

(a.) Hasty.

(v. t.) To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf.

(v. t.) To deprive of the coif or cap.

(v. t.) To free from deafness; to cause to hear.

(n.) A gold coin formerly current in Egypt and Turkey, of the value of about 9s. 6d., or about $2.30; -- also, in Morocco, a ducat.