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To style. [Obs.] Crashaw.

; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light. In this intense seclusion of the forest. Hawthorne.

tate of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake. Hawthorne.

ght or apprehension. Sagacity and a nameless something more, -- let us call it intuition. Hawthorne.

xcept court vassals, opposed him. Milton. The artificial life against which we inveighed. Hawthorne.

urround, accompany, or attend. Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. Hawthorne.

ket might render it ineligible. A. Hamilton. An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens. Hawthorne.

In an inveterate manner or degree. "Inveterately tough." Hawthorne.

A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of Falcon. Like a hawk, which feeling freed From bells and jesses which did let her flight. Spenser.

Having jesses on, as a hawk.

A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.

A kickshaws. Milton.

ird (Tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the bead and tail. The quills and wing…

ll-bred. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. Hawthorne.

o retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid. [R.] G. Shaw.

from Laugh, v. i. Laughing falcon (Zoöl.), a South American hawk (Herpetotheres cachinnans); -- so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laughing. -- Laughing gas (Chem.), hyponitrous oxide, or protoxide of nitrogen; -- so called from the exhilaration and laughing which it sometimes produces when inhaled. It…

A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog. Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash. Shak.

on of North America from Connecticut to Virginia. They included the Mohicans, Delawares, Shawnees, and several other tribes.

Companion for life. Hawthorne.

Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington.