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east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell.

One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm.

a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau. The vowel is produced by phonetic, not by dynamic, causes. J. Peile.

he colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

Sharp-sighted as an eagle. "Inwardly eagle-eyed." Howell.

Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.

The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.

To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.

The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Lowell.

To remove. [Obs.] Howell.

A list of jurors; a panel. [Obs.] Cowell.

To link together; to connect. Howell.

The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Obs.] Cowell.

To harden; to embolden. [Obs.] Howell.

To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes. Shak. My doubts enmesh me if I try. Lowell.

The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.

One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets. Howell.

refix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above, over. It becomes ep- before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph- before a Greek aspirate, as in ephemeral.

ave an epical character. Brande & C. His [Wordsworth's] longer poems (miscalled epical). Lowell.