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rection; -- called also Holy Thursday. -- Right ascension (Astron.), that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which rises with a star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes…

Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser.

arf the way to her assigned. Spenser. It is not easy to assign a period more eventful. De Quincey.

reat atrocity. Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. De Quincey.

The act of driving a chariot or a carriage. [R.] De Quincey.

led "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

Past the middle of life; in the third stage. An autumnal matron. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra.…

Eradication. [R.] De Quincey.

straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton.

ck by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. "A baffled purpose." De Quincey. A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a question sh…

y-five years ago the vile ejaculation, Bah! was utterly unknown to the English public. De Quincey.

The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.

A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession. [Written also baldachino, baldaquin, etc.]

Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture. De Quincey.

To become barbarous. The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey.

-- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

an. (a) Same as Florida bean. (b) A red bean of unknown species used for ornament. -- Tonquin bean, or Tonka bean, the fragrant seed of Dipteryx odorata, a leguminous tree. -- Vanilla bean. See under Vanilla.

A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant. [India]

. It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

A medicine for relieving coughs. Quincy.