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Colloq.] Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. De Quincey.

rous hands. Shak. We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their rigorous unity. De Quincey.

White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey.

, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service tress, and quinces.

ed first. "No round robins signed by the whole main deck of the Academy or the Porch." De Quincey. (b) (Zoöl.) The cigar fish. -- Round shot, a solid spherical projectile for ordnance. -- Round Table, the table about which sat King Arthur and his knights. See Knights of the Round Table, under Knight. -- Round tower,…

Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy. De Quincey.

r. Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity. De Quincey.

bond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade. Bunyan. Wretched runagates from the jail. De Quincey. Who has not been a runagate from duty Hare.

r the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey.

firm; to approve. Would have counseled, or even sanctioned, such perilous experiments. De Quincey.

.] Sapodilla plum (Bot.), the fruit of Achras Sapota. It is about the size of an ordinary quince, having a rough, brittle, dull brown rind, the flesh being of a dirty yellowish white color, very soft, and deliciously sweet. Called also naseberry. It is eatable only when it begins to be spotted, and is much used in dess…

A rascal; a swindler; a rogue. De Quincey.

ct; a theatrical display. Probably no lover of scenes would have had very long to wait De Quincey. Behind the scenes, behind the scenery of a theater; out of the view of the audience, but in sight of the actors, machinery, etc.; hence, conversant with the hidden motives and agencies of what appears to public view.…

uations communicate a scenical animation to the wild romance, if treated dramatically. De Quincey.

a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. I have no materials -- not a scrap. De Quincey.

Half conscious; imperfectly conscious. De Quincey.

That which is part fable and part truth; a mixture of truth and fable. De Quincey.

Senatorial. [R.] De Quincey.

the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, and sequacious, like those of the planets. De Quincey.

; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.