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With lively intelligence; intelligently. Looking brightly into the mother's face. Hawthorne.

ryden. Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.

great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.

tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." Hawthorne.

through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws. Hawthorne.

e with one cast of an eye. Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. Hawthorne.

asional; incidental; as, casual expenses. A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture. Hawthorne.

as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.

Moving in a circle; turning round. Hawthorne.

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. -- Clod"dish*ness, n.

Parsimonious; stingy. "A crusty old fellow, as close as a vise." Hawthorne.

Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.

A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.

A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

to disturb; to stir up. [R.] Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable. Hawthorne.

take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand. "I conceive you." Hawthorne. O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! Shak. You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate. Swift.

; aware; sensible. Her conscious heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt. Hawthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey.

wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Hawthorne.

ance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.

and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne.