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. That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. De Quincey.

One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.

s rest-house at the and of a dak stage. -- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquines or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.

lot. Speculations high or deep. Milton. A question deep almost as the mystery of life. De Quincey. O Lord, . . . thy thought are very deep. Ps. xcii. 5.

n features; deformed. [R.] Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.

A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. [Colloq.] De Quincey.

Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative. "Demiurgic power." De Quincey.

by pressure; an indentation. A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of butter. De Quincey.

To lay bare; to expose. The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey.

irreligious; to turn from religion. [R.] He would dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey.

al air; a comment or comments. Upon that simplest of themes how magnificent a descant! De Quincey.

rown through a . . . channel known and conformable to old constitutional requisitions. De Quincey.

Chaucer's poems. His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur. De Quincey.

path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey.

other; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids.

by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. De Quincey.

ious condescension with which even his reputed friends doled out their praises to him. De Quincey.

A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. [Written also doolee and doolie.] [East Indies] Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent. J. D. Hooker.…