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Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

age. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.

lity or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.

Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. [Obs.]

A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.

nt manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits. I could have better spared a better man. Shak.

One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.

A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite. [Obs.]

One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

To write a history of the life of. Southey.

The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency. A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. Dryden.

A sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule; a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, FeS2; -- less frequently called bisulphuret.

A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende.

en instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void. I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you. Swift. From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation. Hallam. I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was…

A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

d; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction. So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones. Hood.

aëriform body. "A body of cold air." Huxley. By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. Milton.