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ak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow.

d; hence, to be in suspense or doubt. The slender, graceful spars Poise aloft in air. Longfellow.

To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over. Longfellow.

ation is to make earthen vessels. Ps. ii. 9. The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. Longfellow.

st, or conjurer, among the North American Indians. Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow. Longfellow.

ous; fussy and positive; meddlesome. "Pragmatical officers of justice." Sir W. Scott. The fellow grew so pragmatical that he took upon him the government of my whole family. Arbuthnot.

mountains. From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the northland. Longfellow.

erve as prelude to; to precede as introductory. [Music] preluding some great tragedy. Longfellow

Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.

A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow. The queer prig of a doctor. Macaulay.

primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.

A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. Drayton.

A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick. I . . . did hear them call their fat child punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short. Pepys.

e; we fly from pain. Prior. The happiness of men lies in purswing, Not in possessing. Longfellow.

ed figuratively. The herald Hope, forerunning Fear, And Fear, the pursuivant of Hope. Longfellow.

fears. I. Taylor. Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter. Longfellow.

ll the disaffected minority. Macaulay. Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt. Longfellow.

ating a person who begins sinking into it. Life hath quicksands, -- Life hath snares! Longfellow.

Nimble; active. [Obs.] " A little quiver fellow." Shak.