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ghteousness. Rom. iv. 9. Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne.

. Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne.

a whirling sensation; to be giddy. In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled. Hawthorne.

g-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than those marks of childish preference. Hawthorne.

tinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne.

el an assault, an encroachment, or an argument. [He] gently repelled their entreaties. Hawthorne.

r the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements. Hawthorne.

sex, behind. Prior. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. Hawthorne.

uiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne.

ertaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceæ, or Rhamneæ) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus).

A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purchianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.

One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.

cism; a rigid sentence. The more rigid order of principles in religion and government. Hawthorne.

o rove; to wander. He roameth to the carpenter's house. Chaucer. Daphne roaming through a thorny wood. Shak.

e. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service tress, and quinces.

A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. "Thick rosaries of scented thorn." Tennyson.

he matter, it passeth for a full thousand. Fuller. A boldness and rotundity of speech. Hawthorne.

filthy. The rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the Brititsh provinces. Hawthorne.

ers. Macaulay. The culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart. Hawthorne.

ecially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc. Sallow thorn (Bot.), a European thorny shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) much like an Elæagnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords a yellow dye.