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fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant. The merely human,the temporary and fluxional. Coleridge. Fluxional structure (Geol.), fluidal structure.

t (Bot.), any plant cultivated for the beauty of its leaves, as many kinds of Begonia and Coleus.

l; primitive. [R.] From the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual power. Coleridge.

A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.

The science or state of fossils. Coleridge.

rowns command. Prior. Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. H. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to wheat or grain. [R.] Coles.

Lamentable; doleful. [R.] "Funest and direful deaths." Coleridge. A forerunner of something very funest. Evelyn.

re; futurity. [R.] Nothing . . . can have this imagined futurition, but as it is decreed. Coleridge.

of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge

inciple) from particulars. A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts. Coleridge.

of genius. Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifyng power. Coleridge.

tle touch; a gentle gallop. "Gentle music." Sir J. Davies. O sleep! it is a gentle thing. Coleridge. The gentle craft, the art or trade of shoemaking.

ed. To get rid of fools and scoundrels. Pope. His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. Coleridge.

in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. Macaulay.

our great Harrys rose. Shak. I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge.

A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvæ of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments. Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath fire in darkness, none in light. Shak.

th a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet. Coleridge.

through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n.

One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridæ; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow.