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vior, or speech. Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion. Hawthorne. --Out*land"ish*ly, adv. -- Out*land"ish*ness, n.

yster women, a women who deals in oysters. -- Pearl oyster. (Zoöl.) See under Pearl. -- Thorny oyster (Zoöl.), any spiny marine shell of the genus Spondylus.

Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted. Hawthorne. Pedestaled haply in a palace court. Keats.

ting quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. His look became keen and penetrative. Hawthorne.

ans, or to their language. Persian berry, the fruit of Rhamnus infectorius, a kind of buckthorn, used for dyeing yellow, and imported chiefly from Trebizond. -- Persian cat. (Zoöl.) Same as Angora cat, under Angora. -- Persian columns (Arch.), columns of which the shaft represents a Persian slave; -- called also Pers…

Capability of being persuaded. Hawthorne.

Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne.

ndition; also, official station; occupation; calling. "The enervating magic of place." Hawthorne. Men in great place are thrice servants. Bacon. I know my place as I would they should do theirs. Shak.

The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity. Hawthorne.

To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They had platted a crown of thorns." Matt. xxvii. 29.

ce, the damson, and the numerous varieties of plum, of our gardens, although growing into thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. G. Bentham. are in bold format, like collocations.

Of or pertaining to a suborder (Pomeæ) of rosaceous plants, which includes the true thorn trees, the quinces, service berries, medlars, and loquats, as well as the apples, pears, crabs, etc.

rgy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence. "Drugs of potency." Hawthorne. A place of potency and away o' the state. Shak.

ze fight; the system and practice of prize fighting. -- To make prize of, to capture. Hawthorne.

were strictly excluded. Macaulay. He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil. Hawthorne.

The evergreen thorn (Cratægus Pyracantha), a shrub native of Europe.

A quagmire. [R.] "Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells." Cowper.

That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge. The works . . . are curiously hedged with quick. Evelyn.

A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.

e of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.