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rences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms. New shades and combinations of thought. De Quincey. Every shade of religious and political opinion has its own headquarters. Macaulay. The Shades, the Nether World; the supposed abode of souls after leaving the body.

us; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense. "A sheer impossibility." De Quincey. It is not a sheer advantage to have several strings to one's bow. M. Arnold.

t one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, - - no shilly-shally in Kate. De Quincey.

executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner. De Quincey. Keep everything shipshape, for I must go Tennyson.

t encounter. "They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together." De Quincey.

Sorrowful; mournful. [R.] "Sigh-born thoughts." De Quincey.

I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess. De Quincey.

One who simulates, or feigns. De Quincey.

A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. De Quincey.

adows. Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey.

smug and smooth. Robynson (More's Utopia). The smug and scanty draperies of his style. De Quincey. A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. Beau & Fl.

k for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs" De Quincey.

He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. De Quincey.

Sortilege. [R.] De Quincey.

Atterbury. To this special evil an improvement of style would apply a special redress. De Quincey.

with narrowly linear whorled leaves; -- formerly thought to cure the quinsy. Also called quincewort. Squinancy berries, black currants; -- so called because used to cure the quinsy. Dr. Prior.

eded to great captains who had sapped the whole stamina and resistance of the contest. De Quincey.

e more than a foot long. -- To cut one's stick, or To cut stick, to run away. [Slang] De Quincey.

le; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance. "A striking fact." De Quincey. -- Strik"ing*ly, adv. -- Strik"ing*ness, n.

See Sty, a boil. [R.] De quincey.