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A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass. Donkey engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the larg…

A trifler; a simple fellow.

A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull. Barrow.

Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable. Longfellow.

Without delay; at once; completely. [Obs.] She fell downright into a fit. Arbuthnot.

m a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin. And downward fell into a groveling swine. Milton.

To weigh or press down. A different sin downweighs them to the bottom. Longfellow.

A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.

As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.

t a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." Trench.

tes on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.

One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm.

ak. As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain. Longfellow.

ents, etc. Seen in life's early morning sky. Keble. The forms of its earlier manhood. Longfellow. The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer. J. C. Shairp. Early English (Philol.) See the Note under English. -- Early English architecture, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles used in England, succ…

n; as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it. Shak.

egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake. The egregious impudence of this fellow. Bp. Hall. His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be neglected. Milton.

Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic] Astrologers and men of eld. Longfellow.

lysian age." Beattie. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Longfellow.

door or window. Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers. Longfellow.