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y place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." Wordsworth.

e main body; as, the jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and curved shore." Wordsworth. It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. Sir T. Browne.

The name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar. Whitworth.

A sort of pottage; kale. See Kale, 2. Ainsworth.

A cress. [Obs.] Chaucer. Not worth a kers. See under Cress.

r. Every kind of beasts, and of birds. James iii.7. She follows the law of her kind. Wordsworth. Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. Emerson.

nt. In soft silence shed the kindly shower. Pope. Should e'er a kindlier time ensue. Wordsworth.

kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth.

kindred skies; kindred propositions. True to the kindred points of heaven and home. Wordsworth.

especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen. Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee. Beau. & Fl. Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, "alone". Ld. Lytton.

Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem. Knots worthy of solution. Cowper. A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs. South.

A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents. [Written also kopek, copec, and copeck.]

Lapsible. Cudworth.

Laudableness; praiseworthiness.

Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.

The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.

A wager. "My fortunes against any lay worth naming."

nd; to move swiftly. Also Fig. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky. Wordsworth.

life and fire in fancy and in words. Felton. That gives thy gestures grace and life. Wordsworth.

One who is conspicuous or noteworthy; a model or example; as, the lights of the age or of antiquity. Joan of Are, A light of ancient France. Tennyson.