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Whispering. [R.] "The soft susurrant sigh." Poetry of Anti- Jacobin.

ds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges. -- Swamp robin (Zoöl.), the chewink. -- Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genus Magnolia (M. glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also sweet bay. -- Swamp sparrow (Zoöl.), a c…

The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.)

De Quincey. His name has thus become, throughout all civilized countries, a synonym for probity and philanthropy. Macaulay. In popular literary acceptation, and as employed in special dictionaries of such words, synonyms are words sufficiently alike in general signification to be liable to be confounded, but yet so dif…

l; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal of room. (f) To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian religion." Addison. (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds. (h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.]…

resembling the tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Southern Florida, and the Pithecolobium filicifolium of the West Indies.

cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.

A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.

truth to a series of statements that together shall constitute an organized whole. E. G. Robinson (Johnson's Cyc.).

A colorless mobile liquid, C6H5.SH, of an offensive odor, and analogous to phenol; -- called also phenyl sulphydrate.

rbon, C6H5.CH3, of the aromatic series, homologous with benzene, and obtained as a light mobile colorless liquid, by distilling tolu balsam, coal tar, etc.; -- called also methyl benzene, phenyl methane, etc.

(Automobiles) Orig., the after part of the body with entrance at the rear (as in vehicle in def. 1); now, one with sides closing in the seat or seats and entered by a door usually at the side, also, the entire body of an automobile having such an after part.

a wind instrument, as a flute; also, to make a similar noise by any means. "The tootling robin." John Clare.

An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush. [Cant]

became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites. Macaulay.

ter, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall. Pryce.

An automobile designed for touring; specif., a roomy car, not a limousine, for five or more passengers.

Toxiphobia. A. S. Taylor.

e troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward.

A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.