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omatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.

See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic. Had Virgil been a circular poet, and closely adhered to history, how could the Romans have had Dido Dennis.

ace, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.

n; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.

collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald. "I have marshaled my clan." Campbell.

n of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.

Commotion; disturbance. "Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story." Barrow.

An assistant in a shop or store. [U. S.]

The Muse who presided over history.

lammable powder. -- Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. -- Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.

A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.

drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.

ht. Ball cock. See under Ball. -- Chaparral cock. See under Chaparral. -- Cock and bull story, an extravagant, boastful story; a canard. -- Cock of the plains (Zoöl.) See Sage cock. -- Cock of the rock (Zoöl.), a South American bird (Rupicola aurantia) having a beautiful crest. -- Cock of the walk, a chief or mast…

volving in our minds, did cogitate nothing more than how to satisfy the parts of a good pastor. Foxe.

Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.

p., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.

An association of churches, possessing common revenues and administered under the joint pastorate of several ministers; as, the Reformed (Dutch) Collegiate Church of New York.

ce as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation. Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss. Compton Reade. Dead coloring. See under Dead.

The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb. "A comb of honey." Wyclif. When the bee doth leave her comb. Shak.