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early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers. Hawthorne.

dge. The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne.

are engage. Pope. Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation. Hawthorne.

, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. Hawthorne. Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. De Quincey.

To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk. [Obs.]

A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.

umor gained ground, -- and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people. Hawthorne.

educate; to teach. [Obs.] The skillful goddess there erudiates these In all she did. Fanshawe.

voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.

Famous men, -- whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural. Hawthorne.

or spiritlike. Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne.

g; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne.

To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.

To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

quisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.

A nesting or unfledged Lird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to pr Shak J. H. Walsh

An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk. [Obs.] Shak.

p, the foremost part in the bows of a ship, where, formerly, eyes were painted; also, the hawser holes. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Half an eye, very imperfect sight; a careless glance; as, to see a thing with half an eye; often figuratively. "Those who have but half an eye. " B. Jonson. -- To catch one's eye, to attract one…