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f. How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland. Blair.

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. -- n.

A beurré (or buttery) pear, one with the meas, Beurré d'Anjou; Beurré Clairgeau.

Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. Blair.

practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur.

fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent. Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry. Blair. It is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. Atterbury.

Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.

a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests. To break cover, to start from a covert or lair; -- said of game. -- Under cover, in an envelope, or within a letter; -- said of a written message. Letters . . . dispatched under cover to her ladyship. Thackeray.

our nature. South. Moments there frequently must be, when a sidegradation of his state. Blair.

Consisting of eulogy or of invective. "Demonstrative eloquence." Blair. Demonstrative pronoun (Gram.), a pronoun distinctly designating that to which it refers.

r the whole of a machine or organism. A sudden fall deranges some of our internal parts. Blair.

ation; as, to digest the laws, etc. Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair. We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak.

grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. Blair.

atching the mole, half beggars him ere noon. Young. Why this in earthing up a carcass R. Blair.

er and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop. Sinclair. Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng.] -- Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [Eng.]

One who favors the practice of fallowing land. [R.] Sinclair.

A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.

Glairy. John Georgy (1766).

See Glair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. Blair.