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se, conflict, or the like. Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great of modern poetry. De Quincey.

Falsely romantic. The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage. De Quincey.

rations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. De Quincey.

ially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter. Craik.

A word consisting of four syllables. De Quincey.

ongs in part to Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to negative propositions. De Quincey.

all be between the wheels. Every creature that met us would rely on us for quartering. De Quincey.

dresses in women's clothing. Sometimes pejorative. Queen apple. Etym: [Cf. OE. quyne aple quince apple.] A kind of apple; a queening. "Queen apples and red cherries." Spenser. -- Queen bee (Zoöl.), a female bee, especially the female of the honeybee. See Honeybee. -- Queen conch (Zoöl.), a very large West Indian came…

A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.

acon. The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. De Quincey.

ach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days. De Quincey.

s, raw soldiers; a raw recruit. Approved himself to the raw judgment of the multitude. De Quincey.

to rebuff. The more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his tricks. De Quincey.

her demeanor made it impossible . . . that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits. De Quincey.

fication of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error. De Quincey.

actice or opinion. The last rebellious recusants among the European family of nations. De Quincey.

whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion. De Quincey.

of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey.

, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand. De Quincey.

elf of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me. De Quincey.