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en clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. Hawthorne. Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. De Quincey.

gained ground, -- and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people. Hawthorne.

A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.

ce sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.

ous men, -- whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural. Hawthorne.

spiritlike. Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne.

A bass instrument of the saxhorn family.

bby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.

Having broad horns.

s, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne.

One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. L. Horner.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.

One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.

hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

itely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.

, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. Hawthorne.

y. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.

a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent- formed.

ets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes. Sir W. Scott.