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ding himself against accusations, . . . no man could possibly hold an ascendent position. Grote.

ould be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.

A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.

In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. C. Kingsley.

A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility. And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, i…

Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire. Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people. Addison.

r young plants during the night, are the larvæ of several species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm. -- Sea cabbage.(Bot.) (a) Sea kale (b). The original Plant (Brassica oleracea), from which the cabbage, cauliflower, , broccoli, etc., have been derived by cultivation. -- Thousand-headed cabbage. See Brusse…

French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature. I. Taylor. A grotesque caricature of virtue. Macaulay.

A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

a cabinet, a house, or a garden. In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work. Carew.

ness is a kind of conscientiousness, and when it degenerates it becomes crotchetiness. J. Grote.

conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.

The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want. [R.] J. Grote.

Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions Grote.

ophy which treats of happiness; the science of happiness; -- contrasted with aretaics. J. Grote.

Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

d, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false. Dryden.

A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely. [Written also gargle, gargyle, and gurgoyle.]