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on slight evidence; credulity. Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists. S. Clarke.

r I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman. Beau. & Fl. To dare larks, to catch them by producing terror through to use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. Nares.

lavery. Addison. To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. S. Clarke.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur; specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria).

Having the quality of unloosing or separating. Clarke. Dialytic telescope, an achromatic telescope in which the colored dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the…

orm. Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies. S. Clarke.

Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. Clarke. -- n. (Med.)

A variety of pigeon. Clarke. Dragoon bird (Zoöl.), the umbrella bird.

eclaration; a statement. Every intelligible enunciation must be either true or false. A. Clarke.

One who writes epistles; a correspondent. Mary Cowden Clarke.

A breath; a puff of wind. Clarke.

hich contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer. Clarke.

ee Gill. -- Ground joist, a joist for a basement or ground floor; a. sleeper. -- Ground lark (Zoöl.), the European pipit. See Pipit. -- Ground laurel (Bot.). See Trailing arbutus, under Arbutus. -- Ground line (Descriptive Geom.), the line of intersection of the horizontal and vertical planes of projection. -- Gro…

jury; to venture; to risk. Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. John Clarke. He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller.

A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger. It was the lark, the herald of the morn. Shak.

ng two dense tufts of feathers on the head. -- Horned horse (Zoöl.), the gnu. -- Horned lark (Zoöl.), the shore lark. -- Horned lizard (Zoöl.), the horned toad. -- Horned owl (Zoöl.), a large North American owl (Bubo Virginianus), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties…

To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke.

ine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse. "A good improvement of his reason." S. Clarke. I shall make some improvement of this doctrine. Tillotson.

ly, or immediately. All spontaneous animal motion is performed by mechanical impulse. S. Clarke.