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A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz. The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums. Shak.

Jocose; witty; humorous. Swift.

" Byron. Hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts. Swift.

of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural. [Colloq.] Heaven send thou hast not got the hyps. Swift.

critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious. "Hypercritical readers." Swift.

See Hypocritical. Swift.

Deserving ignominy; despicable. One single, obscure, ignominious projector. Swift.

chargeable with a crime. Owners of lands in fee simple are not impeachable for waste. Z. Swift.

n. The consequence of Coriolanus' impeachment had like to have been fatal to their state. Swift.

xation and impertinence of pedants who affect to talk in a language not to be understood. Swift.

pearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed. "Implausible harangues." Swift. -- Im*plau"si*ble*ness, n. -- Im*plau"si*bly, adv.

sters and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. Swift.

Johnson. Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded. Swift.

his family; the first regiment in the army. Nine in ten of those who enter the ministry. Swift.

, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! Swift.

grown By what if fed on. Shak. For things of tender kind for pleasure made Shoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd. Dryden.

rcise of any office. These fines are only to be paid to the bishop during his incumbency. Swift.

ossession of a benefice or of any office. The incumbent lieth at the mercy of his patron. Swift.

information. Rogers. He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. Swift.

Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son which himself never possessd Swift.