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A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah.

Swarthy; tawny. [Obs.] Burton.

tes; resembling the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate. "Sybaritic dinners." Bp. Warburton. "Sybaritical cloistres." Bp. Hall.

y; servility. The sycophancy of A.Philips had prejudiced Mr. Addison against Pope. Bp. Warburton.

l as force of the argument, I shall here draw up a short synopsis of this epistle. Bp. Warburton.

. M. Stuart. The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms. Bp. Warburton.

Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.

ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton.

The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness. Burton.

Testy; irritable. [Obs.] Burton.

Of or pertaining to thaumaturgy; magical; wonderful. Burton.

A pretender or quack in theology. [R.] Burton.

A woman; -- used in contempt. Burton.

Capable of being deduced; derivable. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

To change or translate from one dialect into another. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter. Bp. Warburton.

A truant. [Obs.] Burton.

Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical. Burton. -- Trop`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous. Recompensed with turgent titles. Burton.

One who, or that which, typifies. Bp. Warburton.