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The close of the day. Swift.

Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. Pope.

The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.

The state or condition of being nonresident, Swift.

wal or failure to follow it up. "When two are joined in a writ, and one is nonsuited." Z. Swift.

hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift.

Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. Swift.

romotes development or growth. Is not virtue in mankind The nutriment that feeds the mind Swift.

Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. "Obdurate consonants." Swift.

A thing to be observed. Swift.

hak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By sure prognostic, when to dread a shower. Swift.

pedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance. A popular assembly free from obstruction. Swift.

figure a little more oddly turned." Locke. A great black substance,... very oddly shaped. Swift.

are men and you are gods. Shak. There appeared, at least, four to one odds against them. Swift. All the odds between them has been the different s "cope....given to their understandings to range in. Locke. Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie. Locke.

pt; to make an essay or a trial; -- used with at. "Without offering at any other remedy." Swift. He would be offering at the shepherd's voice. L'Estrange. I will not offer at that I can not master. Bacon.

g reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live. Swift.

es while the oppressor feeds. Shak. To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor. Swift.

Wealth; riches; affluence. Swift

Oratorical. [R.] Swift. --Or`a*to"ri*al*ly, adv.

tar. In the small orb of one particular tear. Shak. Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. Milton.