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he one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. De. Quincey.

of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption. De Quincey.

Directly; flatly; point blank. De Quincey.

facture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; -- also called Dippel's oil. -- Bone setter. Same as Bonesetter. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bone shark (Zoöl.), the basking shark. -- Bone spavin. See under Spavin. -- Bone turquoise, fossil bo…

rag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. Johnson. De Quincey.

Something big; a good stout example of the kind. The stone must be a bouncer. De Quincey.

To carouse; to bouse; to booze. De Quincey.

A buskin or half-boot. [Written also brodequin.] [Obs.]

e calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.

ca) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug.

that are most canorous." Sir T. Browne. A long, lound, and canorous peal of laughter. De Quincey.

of cotton so short and fine thet it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.

A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion. Bacon. And let you see with one cast of an eye. Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. Hawthorne.

. Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique deflections from the general rule). De Quincey.

ve given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.

re is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

med by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called ckipper…

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