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Witchcraft; magic; a spell. Tennyson.

An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.

To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through. By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject. South.

The chief magistrate of any one of several republics in mediæveal Italy.

ly, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania. "The governor of the town." Shak.

ner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. Blair.

Necromancy; magic. Sir W. Scott.

An African talisman or Gri'gri' charm. A greegree man, an African magician or fetich priest.

To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause. Not all together; better far, I guess, That we do make our entrance several ways. Shak. But in known images of life I guess The labor greater. Pope.

. . . specter, in a far more terrific guise than any which ever yet have overpowered the imagination. Burke.

A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. Cowell.

e quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.

In Holland, and, until the 19th century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts; hence, also, a member of such a council.

A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation. Shak.

A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium. Liddel & Scott.

ght or title; -- generally with of. My crown is absolute, and holds of none. Dryden. His imagination holds immediately from nature. Hazlitt. Hold on! Hold up! wait; stop; forbear. [Collog] -- To hold forth, to speak in public; to harangue; to preach. L'Estrange. -- To hold in, to restrain one's self; as, he wanted to…

Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.

- Horizontal line (Descriptive Geometry & Drawing), a constructive line, either drawn or imagined, which passes through the point of sight, and is the chief line in the projection upon which all verticals are fixed, and upon which all vanishing points are found. -- Horizontal parallax. See under Parallax. -- Horizont…

One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.

rcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion Addison.