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One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.] Goldsmith.

A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness. Goldsmith.

As some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er. Goldsmith.

By mistake. Goldsmith.

Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.

A mobcap. Goldsmith.

One who practices or upholds monogamy. Goldsmith.

To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly. Old men who mump their passion. Goldsmith.

ch; to trap. When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I nailed them. Goldsmith.

g in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. Pope. His golden sands and palmy wine. Goldsmith.

Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. "A bold peasantry." Goldsmith.

l, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant. Goldsmith.

ing; a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he. Goldsmith.

That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista. "The perspective of life." Goldsmith.

nd. -- Petit maître (. Etym: [F., lit., little master.] A fop; a coxcomb; a ladies' man. Goldsmith. -- Petit serjeanty (Eng. Law), the tenure of lands of the crown, by the service of rendering annually some implement of war, as a bow, an arrow, a sword, a flag, etc. -- Petit treason, formerly, in England, the crime…

rm in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country. Even in penance, planning sins anew. Goldsmith.

ere as plenty as blackberries. Shak. (Folio ed.) Those countries where shrubs are plenty. Goldsmith.

ildren followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile. Goldsmith.

tion; bias. The late learners can not so well take the ply. Bacon. Boswell, and others of Goldsmith's contemporaries, . . . did not understand the secret plies of his character. W. Irving. The czar's mind had taken a strange ply, which it retained to the last. Macaulay.

uired, or necessary to an end or effect proposed. The necessary prerequisites of freedom. Goldsmith.