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A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

he following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony." Longfellow.

(Abies, or Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. Longfellow.

eaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman. Longfellow. Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean. Coleridge.

e supposed to impart poetic inspiration. Keats. Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. Longfellow.

A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [Colloq.] All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm. Dickens. .

goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. Macaulay.

A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]

to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow.

A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow. [Colloq. U.S.]

cer. "Homely brought up in a rude hostelry." B. Jonson. Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow.

A mean, trickish fellow. Bp. Hall.

Bulky; unwiedly. [R.] "A huge hulking fellow." H. Brooke.

One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor. Sir J. Stephen.

A dull fellow; a bore. B. Jonson.

sist in husking maize; -- called also husking bee. [U.S.] "A red ear in the husking." Longfellow.

acteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development. That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Johnson. What is now "idea" for us How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly- created world, -"…

Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.

pede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.

Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings. My heart, impulsive and wayward. Longfellow.