obfirmation and obstinacy of mind

The most direct derivation is from Serap, to burn, whence Seraph; since Serapis was so represented; and since it is evident that Moses cabbalized in translating names, he may have done so here ; and if this, meaning a column of measured time, evince connexion with the pyramid, the name Boore-Muth, a cavern or well of Pluto, is a no less weighty than curious derivation.

... sae little about the elect that are tried wi' hornings, chasings, catchings, imprisonments, torturings, banishments, headings, hangings, dismemberings, and quarterings quick...

Their sewels are made by tying a tassel of birch rind , formed like the wing of a paper kite , to the small end of a slight stick , about six feet in length. These sticks are pricked into the ground about ten or a dozen yards apart