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Not clear to the understanding; not easily The dark problems of existence. Shairp. What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain. Hooker. What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word Shak.

s. Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn. J. C. Shairp.

To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.] While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.

To grow dim. J. C. Shairp.

all a dainty and divisive quality, and can not reach to the depths of humanity. J. C. Shairp. -- Di*vi"sive*ly, adv. -- Di*vi"sive*ness, n. Carlyle.

f authentic history. E. Everett. The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. J. C. Shairp.

ream. Pope. It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. J. C. Shairp.

"Song was the form of literature which he [Burns] had drunk in from his cradle." J. C. Shairp. -- To drink off or up, to drink the whole at a draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial. -- To drink the health of, or To drink to the health of, to drink while expressing good wishes for the health or welfare of.…

ches, and color the dry light in which alone science desires to see its objects. J. C. Shairp. -- Dry masonry. See Masonry. -- Dry measure, a system of measures of volume for dry or coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc. -- Dry pile (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, a…

This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. Shak. To pierce into the dumb past. J. C. Shairp.

ions . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. J. C. Shairp.

anhood. Longfellow. The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer. J. C. Shairp. Early English (Philol.) See the Note under English. -- Early English architecture, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles used in England, succeeding the Norman style in the 12th and 13th centuries.

s, economic purposes; economical truths. These matters economical and political. J. C. Shairp. There was no economical distress in England to prompt the enterprises of colonization. Palfrey. Economic questions, such as money, usury, taxes, lands, and the employment of the people. H. C. Baird.

the mind; sensation produced. Patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical effect. J. C. Shairp. The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place. W. Irving.

it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards. J. C. Shairp.

act; being; essence; existence. Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality. Shairp. Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification. Bentley.

t of a period. The long geological epoch which stored up the vast coal measures. J. C. Shairp.

To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors. This, although now an old an inveterate evil, might be eradicated by vigorous treatment. Southey.

The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

. Emerson. A danger lest the young enthusiast . . . should essay the impossible. J. C. Shairp.