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Hallam. Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. Hawthorne. -- Mid"dling*ly, adv. -- Mid"dling*ness, n.

To a great degree; very much. Practical jokes amused us mightily. Hawthorne.

"Giants of mighty bone." Milton. Mighty was their fuss about little matters. Hawthorne.

ake or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. [He] proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne.

of sixteen. Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses. Cawthorn.

ngeable; fickle. Testament of Love. The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne.

And in this mood will give us anything. Shak. The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne.

moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.

id constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne.

exercise, or introduction into service. The hurried muster of the soldiers of liberty. Hawthorne. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.

t. Special adaptations for this purpose exist; thus, Acacia spadicigera has large hollows thorns, and species of Cecropia have stem cavities. -- Myr`me*co*phyt"ic (#), a.

n; what I can not name; nameless woe,I wot. Shak. I have a nameless horror of the man. Hawthorne.

suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. Hawthorne.

gless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.

whence it is known also as Chili saltpeter. -- Niter bush (Bot.), a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.

terized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. Shak. O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.

hat one would have well done, one should do one's self. It was well worth one's while. Hawthorne. Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can. G. Eliot.

hiladelphus, which have whitish and often fragrant blossoms. -- Native orange, or Orange thorn (Bot.), an Australian shrub (Citriobatus parviflorus); also, its edible yellow berries. -- Orange bird (Zoöl.), a tanager of Jamaica (Tanagra zena); -- so called from its bright orange breast. -- Orange cowry (Zoöl.), a la…

bear. Granville. Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime. Hawthorne.

has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.