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ce, condition, or otherwise. It has raised . . . heats in their faces. Addison. The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white- flame heat, and a sparking or welding heat. Moxon.

To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic. J. R. Smith.

Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity. Goldsmith.

angers; as, hospitable rites. To where you taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. Goldsmith.

entimes The still, and music humanity. Wordsworth. It is a debt we owe to humanity. S. S. Smith.

facetiousness. For thy sake I admit That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit. Goldsmith. A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host. W. Irving. Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or lens, Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See Eye. -- Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasa…

The pursuit of game or of wild animals. A. Smith. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. -- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). -- Hunting cat (Zoöl.), the cheetah.…

A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely. Goldsmith.

e like. [Written also idyll.] Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl. Mrs. Browning. His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. F. Harrison.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

The state or quality of being impracticable; infeasibility. Goldsmith.

The act of linking together; enchaining. [R.] Goldsmith.

Set; fast; fixed. Dr. John Smith.

harmony or suitableness of which the taste and experience of men takes cognizance. C. J. Smith. Incongruous numbers (Arith.), two numbers, which, with respect to a third, are such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder, the two numbers being said to be incongruous with respect to the third;…

Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving. "Irregular incuse square." Dr. W. Smith.

direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly. To tax it indirectly by taxing their expense. A. Smith. Your crown and kingdom indirectly held. Shak.

Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart. Goldsmith.

be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago. A. Smith.

itution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.

Patchwork. [Obs.] Dr. J. Smith.