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f flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. Buckle.

themselves followers of Hermes, and often called themselves Hermetic philosophers. A. B. Buckley.

Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force. Buckle.

sue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet. "That imprint of their hands." Buckle.

The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock.

ute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.

anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire. Buckle. When all external differences have passed away, one element remains intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.

es, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.

In a lolling manner. Buckle.

Main support; principal dependence. The great mainstay of the Church. Buckle.

ause men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs. Buckle.

An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.

A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler. [Obs.] "Take down my buckler . . . and grind the pick on 't." Beau. & Fl.

ided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow. Pillowedon buckler cold and hard. Sir W. Scott.

Early; blooming; being in the first stage. [Poetic] His starry helm, unbuckled, showed him prime In manhood where youth ended. Milton.

To grow again. The snail had power to regrow them all [horns, tongue, etc.] A. B. Buckley.

wing; a second or new growth. Darwin. The regrowth of limbs which had been cut off. A. B. Buckley.

so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. Foxe.

Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.

Carrying a shield or buckler.