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e when obstructed. This dread sovereign, Breath, in its passage, gave a snort or snuffle. Coleridge.

The act of soaring; upward flight. This apparent soar of the hooded falcon. Coleridge.

s. The somnial magic superinducted on, without suspending, the active powers of the mind. Coleridge.

The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy. Coleridge.

A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy. [R.] Coleridge.

part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion. Coleridge.

A variant of Sovereign. [Poetic] On thy bald, awful head, O sovran Blanc. Coleridge.

Without space. Coleridge.

malaria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science. Coleridge. Specific character (Nat. Hist.), a characteristic or characteristics distinguishing one species from every other species of the same genus. -- Specific disease (Med.) (a) A disease which produces a determinate definite…

a sprinkling; as, a spice of mischief. So much of the will, with a spice of the willful. Coleridge.

nt. These openings are usually elliptical, and capable of being closed. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts. Johnson. Brussels sprouts (Bot.) See under Brussels.

many stays for their vines. Addison. Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry. Coleridge.

tate; to move steadily. Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel. Coleridge.

oup Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.

ry. Florio. They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence. Coleridge.

Having no substance; unsubstantial. [R.] Coleridge.

ion. Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment. Coleridge.

Relating to, or containing, a subsumption. Coleridge.

und, and sensual, but not subtile; hence what they think to be humorous, is merely witty. Coleridge. The subtile influence of an intellect like Emerson's. Hawthorne.