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d or exact as indispensable; to need. just gave what life required, and gave no more. Goldsmith. The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. J. A. Symonds.

t of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak.

One who rises again, as from the dead. [R.] Sydney Smith.

ion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson.

veneration; an obeisance. Make twenty reverences upon receiving . . . about twopence. Goldsmith. And each of them doeth all his diligence To do unto the feast reverence. Chaucer.

awaken ridicule toward or respecting. I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage. Goldsmith.

lace me. O, place me in the dusty ring, Where youthful charioteers contened for glory. E. Smith.

A dance performed in a circle. Goldsmith.

is army of saints Cromwell governed. Swift. -- Rump steak, a beefsteak from the rump. Goldsmith.

Made of rushes. Me rushy couch and frugal fare. Goldsmith.

k prepared from sassafras bark and other ingredients, at one time much used in London. J. Smith (Dict. econ. Plants). Saloop bush (Bot.), an Australian shrub (Rhagodia hastata) of the Goosefoot family, used for fodder.

A word used to emphasize a statement. [Obs.] Out she shall pack, with a sassarara. Goldsmith.

of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. J. P. Smith.

m his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray. Goldsmith.

shall never taste. Milton. We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful. C. J. Smith.

Writing hastily or poorly. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.

uld go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us. Goldsmith.

eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February. W. Smith (Bibl. Dict. ).

ttle Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. Goldsmith. Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminæ and the wall of the hoof.

eyond the fact that Selach is a musical term, we know absolutely nothing about it. Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.)