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Sourness and harshness to the taste. [Obs.] Horsley.

l building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made. Audsley.

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. C. Kingsley.

n the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

on of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces." C. Kingsley. The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness. G. Eliot.

e of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.

ere are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.

fficial of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley.

rrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. C. Kingsley. Kane.

A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.

one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp (Richardson's Dict. )

a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. (b) To submit; to yield. [Slang] H. Kingsley.

A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.

hackeray. A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts. C. Kingsley.

ed socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.

A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.

A clerk, a clergyman. [R.] Bp. Horsley.

o great creative minds. Macaulay. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. C. Kingsley.

Conciseness in writing. Bp. Horsley.