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uiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes he eager swain. Pope. The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition. Tylor.

Accomplishment; fulfillment. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a joint. Quain. A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects. Watts.…

four hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its remnants, Lübeck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.

The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed. [R.] It beckons you to go away with it, As if it some impartment did desire To you alone. Shak.

ultless; blameless; innocent. South. An innocent and incupable piece of ignorance. Killingbeck.

Not transient; remaining; permanent. Killingbeck.

A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy. [Obs.] Beck (Draper's Dict.).

n so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries. Beck (Draper's Dict.).

To conceal with masks; to disguise. "To masquerade vice." Killingbeck.

To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. Tyndale.

To nickname; to style. [Obs.] For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me. Ford.

To push; to nudge; also, to beckon. [Prov. Eng.]

A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino. Beck (Draper's Dict.)

A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings. Beck.

is feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. Beckford.

resembled the violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow. [Written also rebeck.] Milton. He turn'd his rebec to a mournful note. Drayton.

Remorse; compunction; compassion. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

It had various values, from three fourths of a cent in Norway to more than two cents in Lübeck.

Stiff; precise; rigid. [R.] Killingbeck.