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se; fluency of speech or expression. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. L. Estrange.

A simpleton. L'Estrange. A pattern and companion fit For all the keeping tonies of the pit. Dryden.

d nail, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. L'Estrange. "I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright." Charles Reade. -- Tooth coralline (Zoöl.), any sertularian hydroid. -- Tooth edge, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of c…

Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The consciences of topgallant sparks." L'Estrange. Topgallant breeze, a breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.

oard, etc. -- Trencher fly, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite. [R.] L'Estrange. -- Trencher friend, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger. -- Trencher mate, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. Hooker.

rate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. L'Estrange.

e gnat . . . twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him. L'Estrange.

open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange.

th. Tillotson. Æsop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss. L'Estrange.

ad a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange.

Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange.

To take out of a case or covering; to remove a case or covering from; to uncover. L'Estrange.

ur shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.

To profane; to desecrate. The vanity unhallows the virtue. L'Estrange.

my; to live up to engagements. As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him. L'Estrange.

of civil entertainment; and without some such tincture of urbanity, good humor falters. L'Estrange.

in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. "A company of waggish boys." L'Estrange.

o side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle. Why do you go nodding and waggling so L'Estrange.

To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach. L'Estrange.

otice. "At a month's warning." Dryden. A great journey to take upon so short a warning. L'Estrange.