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from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.

de. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

bol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.

furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.

soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck. Astratch of her clame, a dab of her beack. Hawthorne.

The dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.

With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.

Conspicuously; showily. [Colloq.] A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.

"dealt with him" on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out. Hawthorne. Return . . . and I will deal well with thee. Gen. xxxii. 9.

read abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.

place of low resort. [Slang] The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. J. Hawthorne.

arch and iron. "A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch." Hawthorne. -- To do way, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by what. "Men are many times brought to that extremity, that were it not for God th…

ollify; to sweeten; to please. As she . . . was further dulcified by her pipe of tobacco. Hawthorne.

figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.

ct to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods. [U.S.] All kinds of dutiable merchandise. Hawthorne.

oughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. Hawthorne.

s is brought Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. Conceit and grief an eager combat fight. Shak.

safety. Burke. The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them. Hawthorne.