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d in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.

er into the married state, or the state of a householder. As people marry now and settle. Prior.

I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face. Prior.

Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.

. In vain I strove to cheek my growing flame, Or shelter passion under friendship's name. Prior.

To make sick; to disease. Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. Prior.

e something in poetry. Milton. Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed. Prior.

roy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation. I raise of sink, imprison or set free. Prior. If I have a conscience, let it sink me. Shak. Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power Has sunk thy father more than all his years. Rowe.

one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well. Hardly the muse can sit the headstrong horse. Prior.

With a slap; all at once; slap. [Colloq.] Prior.

nt (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.

rs slipped into the work. Thus one tradesman slips away, To give his partner fairer play. Prior. Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away. Dryden.

A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. Prior.

o called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head. Dr. Prior. Snake's-head iris (Bot.), an iridaceous plant (Hermodactylus tuberosus) of the Mediterranean region. The flowers slightly resemble a serpent's open mouth.

; to break short, as substances that are brittle. Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. Prior.

abit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate. What parts gay France from sober Spain Prior. See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby. Pope. Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Milton.

on, reciting what it is supposed a person says to himself. The whole poem is a soliloquy. Prior.

o settles on government land before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain the prior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land is opened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing prematurely or anticipates another in acting in order to gain an unfair advantage.

A brisk, showy, gay man. The finest sparks and cleanest beaux. Prior.

subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.