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and burnish as his brothers do. Dryden. My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell. Herbert.

uded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one. " Take no byways." Herbert.

To roast, as a cabob. Sir. T. Herbert.

Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined. Sir T. Herbert.

To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. A tithe purloined canker the whole estate. Herbert.

. Carping and caviling at faults of manner. Blackw. Mag. And at my actions carp or catch. Herbert.

A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.

e, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. Tennyson. Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. Herbert. To chalk out, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] "I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out." Burke.

h ii. 5. But now thou dost thyself immure and close In some one corner of a feeble heart. Herbert. A closed sea, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.

An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service. Herbert was first commissioner of the Admiralty. Macaulay. The commissioner of patents, the commissioner of the land office, the commissioner of Indian affairs, are subotdinates of the secretary of the interior. Bartlett. Commissioner of deeds…

fect to two or more given forces (called the components) when acting in given directions. Herbert. -- Composition metal, an alloy resembling brass, which is sometimes used instead of copper for sheathing vessels; -- also called Muntz metal and yellow metal. -- Composition of proportion (Math.), an arrangement of four…

gle or mix. [Obs.] Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers. Sir T. Herbert. [My joys] are still confected with some fears. Stirling.

espite, Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate. Spenser. Lord, place me in thy consort. Herbert.

An assemblage; a collection; harmonious union. [Obs.] That person of his [George Herbert], which afforded so unusual a contesseration of elegancies. Oley.

Corivalry. [R.] By the corrivalship of Shager his false friend. Sir T. Herbert.

than the snaky locks That curledMegæra. Milton. Curling with metaphors a plain intention. Herbert.

he be far before, May turn, and take me by the hand, and more -May strengthen my decays. Herbert. His [Johnson's] failure was not to be ascribed to intellectual decay. Macaulay. Which has caused the decay of the consonants to follow somewhat different laws. James Byrne.

To weary or tire out; to fatigue. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

One in subjection to a demon, or to demons. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

The dominion of demons. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.