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h has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club. Macaulay.

ackleg. J. Randolph. The coalition between the religious and worldly enemies of popery. Macaulay.

t on one side in a pert or jaunty manner. They cocked their hats in each other's faces. Macaulay.

ey in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.

A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights. Henry the Eight had built . . . a cockpit. Macaulay.

what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay.

A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose roostock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actæa, plants of the Crowfoot family.

rfeit money. Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. Macaulay.

A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. Gray.

main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macaulay.

a liturgy. The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. Macaulay.

as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay.

A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. "The gate of Trinity College." Macaulay.

See Cauliflower.

"qui*al*ly, adv. His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order. Macaulay.

mighty combatants." Milton. A controversy which long survived the original combatants. Macaulay

rmination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy. With all the vivacity if comedy. Macaulay. Are come to play a pleasant comedy. Shak.

y and comfort in thy love. Phil. 7 (Rev. Ver. ). He had the means of living in comfort. Macaulay.

rol of; to have at one's disposal; to lead. Monmouth commanded the English auxiliaries. Macaulay. Such aid as I can spare you shall command. Shak.

years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser. Macaulay.