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Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.

Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.

A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pat…

Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl. Hall Caine.

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton.

Gay; full of gayety; joyous.

In a blithe manner.

The state of being blithe. Chaucer.

Cheery; gay; merry. The blithesome sounds of wassail gay. Sir W. Scott. -- Blithe"some*ly, adv. -- Blithe"some*ness, n.

The head of a bolt.

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]

One who bothers.

Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garnison lean in firing.

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott.

One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.

A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.