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That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention. We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town. Addison. There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc. Bacon.

The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. cæsius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries.

beginnings of new affection. Sir H. Wotton. A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples. Rambler.

a man a woman for her beauty. Collier. Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Rambler.

ay; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. Rambler.

The last emission of breath; death. "The groan of expiration." Rambler.

ally, sporting characters taken collectively, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. De Quincey.

rly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry. Flash house, a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties a…

, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Burke.

con. There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Rambler. Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency. Spenser.

n rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak.

ue or religion; a simulation of goodness. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. Rambler. Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucauld (Trans. ).

uty. Byron. There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence. Rambler.

urs with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. Rambler. Ignominy is the infliction of such evil as is made dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made honorable by the Common wealth. Hobbes.

Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to.

ugh all her train the soft infection ran. Pope. Mankind are gay or serious by infection. Rambler.

pertinent curiosity. Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great activity, scrambled in at a high window. Johnson. Curiosity in children nature has provided, to remove that ignorance they were born with; which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull. Locke.

or increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. Rambler.

Not susceptive or susceptible. [R.] Rambler.