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c which is made more loud or rapid as he approaches success, and slower as he recedes. Tennyson. -- Music box. See Musical box, under Musical. -- Music hall, a place for public musical entertainments. -- Music loft, a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a church. -- Music of the spheres, the harmony supp…

praise. Halleck. Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the underlying dead. Tennyson.

ce to me Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown The vast necessity of heart and life. Tennyson.

A Newfoundland dog. Tennyson. Newfoundland dog (Zoöl.), a breed of large dogs, with shaggy hair, which originated in Newfoundland, noted for intelligence, docility, and swimming powers.

Placed in a niche. "Those niched shapes of noble mold." Tennyson.

he Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress. Tennyson.

hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently. Lambs . . . nosing the mother's udder. Tennyson. A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature . . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its authority. Burke.

useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.

y. For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. Dryden. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Tennyson.

The letter O, or its sound. "Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes." Tennyson.

To give obedience. Will he obey when one commands Tennyson.

Rogers. O I that wasted time to tend upon her, To compass her with sweet observances! Tennyson.

lisk, and odalik.] Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode. Tennyson.

The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (Nyssa capitata) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida.

A female ogre. Tennyson.

The last; the end; hence, death. "Omega! thou art Lord," they said. Tennyson. Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending; hence, the chief, the whole. Rev. i. 8. The alpha and omega of science. Sir J. Herschel.

ecisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle. "Oracles of mode." Tennyson. The country rectors . . . thought him an oracle on points of learning. Macaulay.

To become round like an orb. [Poetic] And orb into the perfect star. Tennyson.

deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held. Drayton.

ee Bay window. The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in every carven glass. Tennyson.