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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope.

. Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. Pope.

e; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope.

The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Pope.

to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer. Pope.

ight hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left. On sounding wings a dexter eagle flew. Pope.

xpedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager. Dexterous the craving, fawning crowd to quit. Pope.

To adorn with a diadem; to crown. Not so, when diadem'd with rays divine. Pope. To terminate the evil, To diadem the right. R. H. Neale.

; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey (Zoöl.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

, and invested with unlimited power. Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language. Macaulay.

s finger in the blood. Lev. iv. 6. [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. Tennyson.

ection. Shak. All nature is but art, unknown to thee;direction, which thou canst not see. Pope.

bank, insurance company, or railroad company. What made directors cheat in South-Sea year Pope.

Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope.

scordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel. Who shall decide, when doctors disagree Pope.

To disembark. Pope.

ing rock, and slope, and forest brown! Byron. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose. Pope.

disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up. Or discomposed the headdress of a prude. Pope.

Addison. Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope. The sea is silent, the sea is discreet. Longfellow.

To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber. [Archaic] Pope.