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d bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride. Goldsmith. A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. Macaulay.

A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.

pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal. " A pyramidical rock." Goldsmith. "Gold in pyramidic plenty piled." Shenstone. -- Pyr`a*mid"ic*al*ly, adv. Pyr`a*mild"ic*al*ness, n.

kill rather than by science or literature, although they were adept potters, weavers, and goldsmiths, and preserved by the aid of the mnemonic quipu a body of legendary lore in part written down since the introduction of writing.

l ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle. His cravat seemed quilled into a ruff. Goldsmith.

g guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception. What reception a poem may find. Goldsmith.

emento; a memorial; a reminder. Premature consiolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow. Goldsmith. Ye that are the lord's remembrancers. Isa. lxii. 6. (Rev. Ver. ).

ad dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed. Goldsmith.

Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.

emand or exact as indispensable; to need. just gave what life required, and gave no more. Goldsmith. The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. J. A. Symonds.

clusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson.

or veneration; an obeisance. Make twenty reverences upon receiving . . . about twopence. Goldsmith. And each of them doeth all his diligence To do unto the feast reverence. Chaucer.

; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting. I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage. Goldsmith.

A dance performed in a circle. Goldsmith.

y this army of saints Cromwell governed. Swift. -- Rump steak, a beefsteak from the rump. Goldsmith.

Made of rushes. Me rushy couch and frugal fare. Goldsmith.

A word used to emphasize a statement. [Obs.] Out she shall pack, with a sassarara. Goldsmith.

from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray. Goldsmith.

Writing hastily or poorly. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.

should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us. Goldsmith.