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between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

The state of being worn. Johnson.

publication of the "Encyclopedia" by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.…

A species of crowfoot. Johnson.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson.

rity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. The austerity of John the Baptist. Milton.

n editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.

nternal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, ranging from the run-about to the touring car, up to as high as 200 H. P. for specially…

Same as Kava. Johnston.

To root up. [Obs.] Johnson.

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson.

adfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place. The awfulness of grandeur. Johnson.

ving the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. "Axiomatical truth." Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. I. Taylor.

To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.

trine of a modern religious sect, which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Parsee elements.

dern religious pantheistical sect in Persia, which was founded, about 1844, by Mirza Ali Mohammed ibn Rabhik (1820 -- 1850), who assumed the title of Bab-ed-Din (Per., Gate of the Faith). Babism is a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish, and Parsi elements. This doctrine forbids concubinage and polygamy, and frees…

ronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. We saw our baggage following below. Johnson.

The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.