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first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet and word methods.

entine. [R.] The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive. Walpole.

e; to cumber. Shackled by her devotion to the king, she seldom could pursue that object. Walpole.

eterograpsus nudus of California. -- Shore lark (Zoöl.), a small American lark (Otocoris alpestris) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black streak b…

volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. Addison.

from Smoke. Smoking bean (Bot.), the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars. -- Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco.

-- Snow leopard (Zool.), the ounce. -- Snow line, lowest limit of perpetual snow. In the Alps this is at an altitude of 9,000 feet, in the Andes, at the equator, 16,000 feet. -- Snow mouse (Zoöl.), a European vole (Arvicola nivalis) which inhabits the Alps and other high mountains. -- Snow pheasant (Zoöl.), any one…

A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.

head of a jib-headed sail. -- Spanish sheep (Zoöl.), a merino. -- Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white pigment. -- Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to serve as a lev…

Upstart. [R.] Walpole.

h of poor Liddy. Smollett. Fifty thousand men can not easily steal a march over the sea. Walpole.

ntaining the Greek version of the ordinance, has recently been discovered. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpæ, etc.

nother. In lieu of me, you will have a very charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet Stanhope. Walpole.

Supervision. Walpole.

A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.

The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

ices. "If he does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great friendship with him." Walpole.

at exactly tallied with the channel. Addison. Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine. Walpole.