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creature of bombast! Shak. Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes.

If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and 15th centuries) to be "prosed in faire cadence." Dr. Guest.

Another carried the intelligence to Russell. Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles. Bacon.

A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.

o take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. Choose me for a humble friend. Pope.

nce between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valv…

Supplied with clients. [R.] The least cliented pettifiggers. R. Carew.

the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all these significations Bentley.

ss or compound. In the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy. Bacon.

ore than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.

adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.

author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His [Mozart's] most brilliant and solid glory is founded upon his talents as a composer. Moore (Encyc. of Mus. ).

Accountable; responsible; sensitive. [Obs.] I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage. Shak.

the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses.

icion where none could have been felt. Hawthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey.

ontinued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love, at least contemplate and admire, What I see excellent. Milton. We thus dilate Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate. Byron.

part of Asia is, if not continent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disoined by sea of all that coast. Berrewood.

R.] To these may be added continuatives; as, Rome remains to this day; which includes, at least, two propositions, viz., Rome was, and Rome is. I. Watts.

o lie down and rise up to feed, -- such time being held to include a day and night at the least. Blackstone.

in front of the wicket, four feet distant from it, parallel to the bowling crease and at least as long as the latter. J. H. Walsh (Encyc. of Rural Sports).