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Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge.

rb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant. "Distempered spirits." Coleridge.

A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.

dividual. [R.] He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.

. The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge.

the way of salvation; theology. Divinity is essentially the first of the professions. Coleridge. , casuistry.

An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.

To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. Coleridge.

A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells.

A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.

The ridge of a hill.

original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.

That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. [U.S.]

try such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.

A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. [Obs.] Cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drift doing much damage to the high ways). Fuller.

ty; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery. Ne'er have I duped him with base counterfeits. Coleridge.

Brow; ridge. [Obs.] "Eaves of the hill." Wyclif.

plike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves. "Elfish light." Coleridge. The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne.

ing of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors.

; as, an encysted tumor. The encysted venom, or poison bag, beneath the adder's fang. Coleridge.