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ntry since Shakespeare has exerted a greater variety of powers with less strain and less ostentation. Landor. Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers a strain. Sir W. Temple.

Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule. "Bow, stubborn knees." Shak. "Stubborn att…

To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully. What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar! Arbuthnot. To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen. Colier.

ght by "sweating", or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression. R. Cobden.

To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big. Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock. Shak.

fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.…

Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.

rican Tertiary formation. The incisor teeth were long and curved and provided with a persistent pulp. They are supposed to be related both to the rodents and ungulates. Called also Toxodontia.

n form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life.

sounds with increased force. -- Trumpet animalcule (Zoöl.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. -- Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [Eng.] -- Trumpet conch (Zoöl.), a trumpet shell, or triton. -- Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbin…

Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. -- Tur"gid*ly, adv. -- Tur"gid*ness, n.

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller.

Not agreeing or consistent; unsuitable. Shak. -- Un`a*gree"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`a*gree"a*bly, adv.

Not begot; not yet generated; also, having never been generated; self-existent; eternal.

Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.

Incongruous; inconsistent. "A thing unconsonant.' Hooker.

Not constitutional; not according to, or consistent with, the terms of a constitution of government; contrary to the constitution; as, an unconstitutional law, or act of an officer. Burke. -- Un*con`sti*tu"tion*al"i*ty, n. -- Un*con`sti*tu"tion*al-ly, adv.

Uncreated; self-existent. Book of Common Prayer.

Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.