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Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease. [R.] Thackeray.

Sale at public auction. Massinger. Thackeray.

A pouring out; an outburst. A passionate outgush of emotion. Thackeray.

ad; to encumber; as, to pack a horse. Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey. Shack.

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily. Thackeray.

A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.

A western American hackberry (Celtis reticulata), having light- colored bark.

A small pan or cup. Marryat. Thackeray.

essive frugality; niggardliness. Bacon. Awful parsimony presided generally at the table. Thackeray.

A shackle for horses while pasturing. Knight.

r; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.

Timid; fearful. [R.] Thackeray.

One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. Thackeray.

pposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert. That notorious pervert, Henry of Navarre. Thackeray.

Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

urage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck. Thackeray.

The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. Thackeray.

le. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress. Thackeray. -- Pom"ous*ly, adv. -- Pomp"ous*ness, n.

make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh! [Colloq.] Thackeray.