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Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct." Cowley.

o quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire. Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move. Cowley.

r a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. Cowley.

anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being. We take a falling meteor for a star. Cowley. If a man can be fully assured of anything for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for truLocke. Most of our ingenious young men take up some cried-up English poet for their model. Dryden…

g; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune. You, who men's fortunes in their faces read. Cowley.

pound tincture of benzoin. Brande & C. -- Friar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood. -- Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. -- Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton. -- Friar skate (Zoöl.), the European white or sharpnosed ska…

To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look. The frowning wrinkle of her brow. Shak.

Frowning; scowling. [Obs.] Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.

To feed with fuel. [Obs.] Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame. Cowley.

Like gloss; specious. Cowley.

to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray.

To cause to pay homage. [Obs.] Cowley.

A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl. "All hoods make not monks." Shak.

ent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley.

etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative. Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. Coleridge.

ample; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc. Despise wealth and imitate a dog. Cowlay.

g; that which can not be thought, done, or endured. Impossibilities! O, no, there's none. Cowley.

feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for. Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread. Cowley.

ne, consider; as, to look at a matter without prejudice. -- To look black, to frown; to scowl; to have a threatening appearance. The bishops thereat repined, and looked black. Holinshed. -- To look down on or upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise. -- To look for. (a) To ex…

e; as, to love books; to love adventures. Wit, eloquence, and poetry. Arts which I loved. Cowley.