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Sir J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

A long time. [Colloq.] "He made minutes an age." Tennyson. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

In the act of grinning. "His visage all agrin." Tennyson.

display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion. Airing a snowy hand and signet gem. Tennyson.

though; although; notwithstanding. Chaucer. Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. Tennyson.

st born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

Like the Alps; lofty. "Gazing up an Alpine height." Tennyson.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored. "The amber morn." Tennyson.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully. "Smelt ambrosially." Tennyson.

rmerly with on. Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak.

A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson.

Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.] I never ate with angrier appetite. Tennyson.

A little ring. Tennyson.

Anywise; at all. Tennyson. Southey.

y important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.

To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson.

Whiteness; anything that is white. The polished argent of her breast. Tennyson.

h the arm or hand of one linked in the arm of another. "When arm in armwe went along." Tennyson. -- To keep at arm's length, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.

A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.