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ing to, or resembling, the tinkling of a bell; having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular. De Quincey.

elicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.

influence; stupefying; dull; torpid. Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner. De Quincey.

The shaft of a cart. [Prov. Eng.] De Quincey.

il; the condition of the country is tranquil. A style clear, tranquil, easy to follow. De Quincey.

ina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travelers. De Quincey.

of a work. The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. De Quincey.

ap; to trapan. Guards even of a dozen men were silently trepanned from their stations. De Quincey.

ace; trifling; vulgar. As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. De Quincey.

uff up. To swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought. De Quincey.

ead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style. De Quincey. Encysted tumor, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance. -- Fatty tumor. See under Fatty. -- Innocent tumor, or Benign tumor, one…

ltuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey.

. "Thine 's a tympany of sense." Dryden. A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence. De Quincey.

To loose from the anchor, as a ship. De Quincey.

, unballasted vessels; unballasted wits. Unballasted by any sufficient weight of plan. De Quincey.

unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.

d; quality of the unique; unification. Not unity, but what the schoolmen call unicity. De Quincey. The unicity we strive not to express, for that is impossible, but to designate by the nearest analogy. Coleridge.

nit; to unite; to view as one. A comprehensive or unifying act of the judging faculty. De Quincey. Perception is thus a unifying act. Sir W. Hamilton.

out a like; something unequaled or unparalleled. [R.] The phenix, the unique pf birds. De Quincey.

ge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." De Quincey.