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A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them. Sylvester.

Capable of being strangled. [R.] Chesterfield.

s of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student. Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book. Shak.

High style, as when that men to kinges write. Chaucer. Style is the dress of thoughts. Chesterfield. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style. Swift. It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work. I. Disraeli.

commend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better. And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun. Chaucer. His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weepin…

cker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.

To supply with supper. [R.] "Kester was suppering the horses." Mrs. Gaskell.

a condition in which the vitreous humor is softened and contains sparkling scales of cholesterin.

or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."

Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.

The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency. "External taction." Chesterfield.

An old English breed of sheep allied to the Leicester.

An earthquake. [Western U. S.]

er yourself more dearly. Shak. To see a prince in want would move a miser's charity. Our western princes tendered his case, which they counted might be their own. Fuller.

A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. [Slang, Western U.S.]

manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career. Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their away. Gray.

A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.

A tester; a sixpence. [Obs.]

on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc. [Western U.S.] Knight.

Thankfully. [Obs.] Sylvester (Du Bartas).