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aring; proud delight; -- in a good sense. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride. Goldsmith. A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. Macaulay.

A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.

Prolixity. Adam Smith.

A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.

taining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal. " A pyramidical rock." Goldsmith. "Gold in pyramidic plenty piled." Shenstone. -- Pyr`a*mid"ic*al*ly, adv. Pyr`a*mild"ic*al*ness, n.

To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to double twice. A. Smith.

diaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

rather than by science or literature, although they were adept potters, weavers, and goldsmiths, and preserved by the aid of the mnemonic quipu a body of legendary lore in part written down since the introduction of writing.

dges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle. His cravat seemed quilled into a ruff. Goldsmith.

sed for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i., 1. Sydney Smith.

ests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception. What reception a poem may find. Goldsmith.

rd alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate. One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air. Dryden. Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a rotary engine, in which th…

The act of reëxporting, or of exporting an import. A. Smith.

- often in the plural. He has rendered himself worthy of their most favorable regards. A. Smith. Save the long-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than those marks of childish preference. Hawthorne.

verning board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

t; applicable. Close and relevant arguments have very little hold on the passions. Sydney Smith.

to; a memorial; a reminder. Premature consiolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow. Goldsmith. Ye that are the lord's remembrancers. Isa. lxii. 6. (Rev. Ver. ).

ined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed. Goldsmith.

Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.