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A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

(C. frutescens) with small and intensely pungent fruit. (b) A very pungent spice made by drying and grinding the fruits or seeds of several species of the genus Capsicum, esp. C. annuum and C. Frutescens; -- Called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a condiment.

An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. Dryden. A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. Macaulay.

rfume with odors from burning gums and spices. The Salii sing and cense his altars round. Dryden.

error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes must center in ourselves alone. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to the cerris. Chaplets green of cerrial oak. Dryden.

having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning. To make her certain of the sad event. Dryden. I myself am certain of you. Wyclif.

om the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. So take the corn and leave the chaff behind. Dryden. Old birds are not caught with caff. Old Proverb.

to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. To chaffer for preferments with his gold. Dryden.

Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.

Chagrined. Dryden.

An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exlusively for coal and coke.

e with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard. Foamed and champed the golden bit. Dryden.

; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons. Our fathers did for change to France repair. Dryden. The ringing grooves of change. Tennyson.

Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out. Wildly we roam in discontent about. Dryden.

skin of to crack or become rough. Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. Blackmore. Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. Lyly.

To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse. [Obs.] Dryden.

arge. No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On native loth and negligence of time. Dryden.

e heathen poet, in commending the charity of Dido to the Trojans, spake like a Christian. Dryden.

ny object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt. "This mad chase of fame." Dryden. You see this chase is hotly followed. Shak.