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aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole. -- To make ducks and drakes…

ify; to sweeten; to please. As she . . . was further dulcified by her pipe of tobacco. Hawthorne.

ure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.

to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods. [U.S.] All kinds of dutiable merchandise. Hawthorne.

houghts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. Hawthorne.

s brought Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. Conceit and grief an eager combat fight. Shak.

fety. Burke. The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them. Hawthorne.

Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.

communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation. The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople, or ecumenical patriarch (whose position is not one of supremacy, but of precedence), the patriarch of Alexandria, the patriarch of Jerusalem, the patriarch of Antioch, and the Holy Sy…

e which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.

An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. Knight.

ion and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy. The position which they [the verb and adjective] hold in the general economy of language. Earle. In the Greek poets, as…

mand or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. It stands as an edict in destiny. Shak. Edict of Nantes (French Hist.), an edict issued by Henry IV.…

With effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.

ill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.

had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. Hawthorne.

g a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.

A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder. Presiding elder (Meth. Ch.), an elder commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district. -- Ruling elder, a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session. Schaff.…

rly youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers. Hawthorne.

ents or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. "The elemental rules of erudition." Cawthorn.