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A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

he following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony." Longfellow.

(Abies, or Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. Longfellow.

To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off. Shak.

Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.

eaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman. Longfellow. Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean. Coleridge.

e supposed to impart poetic inspiration. Keats. Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. Longfellow.

A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [Colloq.] All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm. Dickens. .

goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. Macaulay.

A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]

to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow.

A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow. [Colloq. U.S.]

cer. "Homely brought up in a rude hostelry." B. Jonson. Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow.

A mean, trickish fellow. Bp. Hall.

Bulky; unwiedly. [R.] "A huge hulking fellow." H. Brooke.

One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor. Sir J. Stephen.

A dull fellow; a bore. B. Jonson.

sist in husking maize; -- called also husking bee. [U.S.] "A red ear in the husking." Longfellow.

acteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development. That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Johnson. What is now "idea" for us How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly- created world, -"…

Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.