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rincipally of muscle without the fat. The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy. Goldsmith.

rned, but may be little knowing. Locke. Words of learned length and thundering sound. Goldsmith. The learned, learned men; men of erudition; scholars. -- Learn"ed*ly, adv. Learn"ed*ness, n. Every coxcomb swears as learnedly as they. Swift.

Pleasant; jocose. [R.] The joyous and lepid consul. Sydney Smith.

An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and fine-grained.

To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick. [Written also lu.] Goldsmith.

A little or insignificant lord. Goldsmith.

octurnal study; meditation. After long lucubration I have hit upon such an expedient. Goldsmith.

Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.

A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.

A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775. Goldsmith.

tle of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith.

One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.] Goldsmith.

of calm, warm weather often experienced about the time of Martinmas; Indian summer. Percy Smith.

A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal. [Written also matt.]

A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness. Goldsmith.

One guilty of a misdemeanor. Sydney Smith.

some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er. Goldsmith.

favorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith.

By mistake. Goldsmith.

Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.