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ery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. De Quincey.

th one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.

ry; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. The whole people were draped professionally. De Quincey. These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.

ess. Prov. viii. 18. An interest which from its object and grounds must be so durable. De Quincey.

ing supernatural. [Written also eiryness.] The sense of eariness, as twilight came on. De Quincey.

The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposi…

ng exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. "Ebullient with subtlety." De Quincey. The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle.

A medicine made by mixing oils with sirups. John Quincy.

A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23º 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.

The refined spirit; the quintessence. The . . . elixir of worldly delights. South.

to originate. That subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate. De Quincey.

5H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

on more substantial materials. Hawthorne. Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. De Quincey.

being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. The enormity of his learned acquisitions. De Quincey.

roposal. I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke. De Quincey. A rumor gained ground, -- and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people. Hawthorne.

To be twisted or twined. With whose imperial laurels might entwine no cypress. De Quincey.

In or of the country. [R.] Epichorial superstitions from every district of Europe. De Quincey.

aylor. An epic poet, if ever such a difficult birth should make its epiphany in Paris. De Quincey.

resses the relation between the coördinates of every point in the curve. -- Equation of equinoxes (Astron.), the difference between the mean and apparent places of the equinox. -- Equation of payments (Arith.), the process of finding the mean time of payment of several sums due at different times. -- Equation of tim…

se when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line. Equator of the sun or of a planet (Astron.), the great circle whose plane passes through through the center of the body, and is perpendicular to its axis of revolution.…