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he earth revolve thus, each house pear the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. I. Watts.

o writes or speaks disconnectedly and with great excitement or affectation of feeling. I. Watts.

ow the colors are . . . distinguished, but near the borders they run into one another. I. Watts.

sh to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc. Leaves eaten raw termed salad. I. Watts.

bation. The strictest professors of reason have added the sanction of their testimony. I. Watts.

arieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States. -- Savanna wattle (Bot.), a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum.

ardly; parsimonius. In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words. I. Watts.

power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent. I. Watts.

the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. I. Watts. Whatsoever we feel and know Too sedate for outward show. Wordsworth.

ct of disposing or arranging one's self or itself. The self-positing of the molecules. R. Watts.

abilities or worth; hence, haughty; overbearing. "A rash and self-sufficient manner." I. Watts.

Consisting of, or relating to, seven; as, a septenary number. I. Watts.

er things belong to the material world, wherein the sharpest philosophers have never yeL. Watts.

y a seal. The brain, being well furnished with various traces, signatures, and images. I. Watts. The natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls . . . are supposed to be stamped with. Bentley.

ompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. I. Watts.

. determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts.

ong with superficial attention. They skim over a science in a very superficial survey. I. Watts.

terous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick. Envy works in a sly and imperceptible manner. I. Watts.

Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body. I. Watts.

Something yet of doubt remains. Milton. Something of it arises from our infant state. I. Watts.