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To generate; to produce. Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life. De Quincey.

se, conflict, or the like. Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great of modern poetry. De Quincey.

Falsely romantic. The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage. De Quincey.

rations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. De Quincey.

The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show. Punch and Judy, a puppet show in which a comical little hunchbacked Punch, with a large nose, engages in altercation with his wife Judy.

ially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter. Craik.

nearly related to a (ch, tch), p, q, and wh; as in cud, quid, L. equus, ecus, horse, Gr. equine, hippic; L. quod which, E. what; L. aquila, E. eaqle; E. kitchen, OE. kichene, AS. cycene, L. coquina.

A word consisting of four syllables. De Quincey.

ongs in part to Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to negative propositions. De Quincey.

all be between the wheels. Every creature that met us would rely on us for quartering. De Quincey.

dresses in women's clothing. Sometimes pejorative. Queen apple. Etym: [Cf. OE. quyne aple quince apple.] A kind of apple; a queening. "Queen apples and red cherries." Spenser. -- Queen bee (Zoöl.), a female bee, especially the female of the honeybee. See Honeybee. -- Queen conch (Zoöl.), a very large West Indian came…

A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.

acon. The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. De Quincey.

any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink. Gwilt.

See Ramequin. [Obs.]

ach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days. De Quincey.

s, raw soldiers; a raw recruit. Approved himself to the raw judgment of the multitude. De Quincey.

to rebuff. The more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his tricks. De Quincey.

her demeanor made it impossible . . . that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits. De Quincey.

fication of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error. De Quincey.