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rm. Emerson. A danger lest the young enthusiast . . . should essay the impossible. J. C. Shairp.

m. Locke. It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living. J. C. Shairp.

estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.

t ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.

power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. J. C. Shairp.

me the time, but let it not Exceed three days. Shak. Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Pope.

ed furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.

ller. Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts. Bacon.

The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

The brow or hairy arch above the eye. Shak.

The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

An object of interest to the eye; one wirehaired with the eyes. [Obs.] That's the eye-saint, I know, Among young gallants. Beau. & Fl.

A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. Simmonds.

or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.

A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.

An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.

Hairy. [Obs.] amden.

The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.

A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell. We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. Shak.