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A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot. The lady . . . who dresses like a guy. W. S. Gilbert.

elation of duty to pleasure; the science of practical, positive enjoyment or pleasure. J. Grote.

Idealism. J. Grote.

Characterized by imposture; deceitful. "Impostrous pretense of knowledge." Grote.

The doctrine that the ideas of right and wrong are intuitive. J. Grote.

. Practically, in many cases, authority or legific competence has begun in bare power. J. Grote.

A grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean Pan.

lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.

A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.

ous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina. Mantis shrimp. (Zoöl.) See Sguilla.

A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.

To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner. To monkey with, to handle in a meddlesome manner. [Colloq.]

common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters.

See Myth. Grote.

ducing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives. The mythopoeic fertility of the Greeks. Grote.

One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes. Like a wood nymph light, Oread or Dryad. Milton.

To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens. Grote.

-- Pigeon English Etym: [perhaps a corruption of business English], an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindoostanee. Johnson's Cyc. -- Pigeon…

holic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not hear it. Waterland. At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton. Bain.