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own in apprehension or experience. Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us. Jowett. We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. Sir W. Hamilton.

Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt. [Obs.]

A combining form from Greek the nose, as in rhinolith, rhinology.

turbulent. I have a roisting challenge sent amongst The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks. Shak.

The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.

Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting. You common cry or curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens. Shak.

nded from Latin, but containing many words from other languages, as Slavic, Turkish, and Greek.

A chance. [Obs.] Flight shall leave no Greek a rub. Chapman.

rummageth all his closets and trunks. Howell. What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account! M. Arnold.

A small stream; a brook; a creek.

s and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect. Addison. The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. Sir W. Scott.

its name from St. Elmo, the patron saint of sailors. -- Saint George's cross (Her.), a Greek cross gules upon a field argent, the field being represented by a narrow fimbriation in the ensign, or union jack, of Great Britain. -- Saint George's ensign, a red cross on a white field with a union jack in the upper corne…

An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown.

A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. Holland.

son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), anf the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.

A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

ans who formerly occupied Florida, where some of them still remain. They belonged to the Creek Confideration.

A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx. The Seventy, the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See Septuagint.

k better on this virgin, and consider This Persian shape laid by, and she appearing In a Greekish dress. Messinger.