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Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. [R.] Coleridge.

by human beings; solitary. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread. Coleridge .

mistakes his thoughts for person and things, he is mad. A madman is properly so defined. Coleridge.

nd rue, and all manner of herbs. Luke xi. 42. I bid thee say, What manner of man art thou Coleridge.

See Coleoptera and Sea devil.

Marriageable. [R.] Coleridge.

g together into masses; to assemble. But mass them together and they are terrible indeed. Coleridge.

hrist. Hooker. You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements. Coleridge. Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. Sir W. Hamilton.

ate. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran. Coleridge.

The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

An old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype.

The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method. Coleridge.

One who misuses. "Wretched misusers of language." Coleridge.

Monkish. [R.] Coleridge.

soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation. It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. De Quincey.

ions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal. I sang an old moving story. Coleridge. Moving force (Mech.), a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body. -- Moving plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans); -- so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic moti…

Multiplicity. [R.] Coleridge.

ng many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge. -- n.

Sarcolemma.