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her the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements. Hawthorne.

the sex, behind. Prior. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. Hawthorne.

es; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Shak. Ye immortal souls, who once were men, And now resolved to elements again. Dryden.

; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne.

iticism; a rigid sentence. The more rigid order of principles in religion and government. Hawthorne.

To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl. [Obs.] Halliwell.

type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service tress, and quinces.

f the matter, it passeth for a full thousand. Fuller. A boldness and rotundity of speech. Hawthorne.

Having the legs covered with feathers; -- said of a bird. rough-legged hawk. (Zoöl.) See Roughleg.

Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard.

A kind of hood for a hawk.

pt; filthy. The rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the Brititsh provinces. Hawthorne.

A disease in a hawk. Ainsworth. Rye grass, Italian rye grass, (Bot.) See under Grass. See also Ray grass, and Darnel. -- Wild rye (Bot.), any plant of the genus Elymus, tall grasses with much the appearance of rye.

sakers. Macaulay. The culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart. Hawthorne.

Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts. Hawthorne.

nd Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.

One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk.

ative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth. Put on your hood and scarf. Swift. With care about the banners, scarves, and staves. R. Browning.

schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. Hawthorne.

have arisen in my mind. Burke. An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope. Hawthorne.