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Jamaica pepper, allspice. -- Jamaica rose (Bot.), a West Indian melastomaceous shrub (Blakea trinervis), with showy pink flowers.

iness. For ye are our glory and joy. 1 Thess. ii. 20. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Keats.

cating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day. Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. Keats. Their idleness, aimless and languid airs. W. Black.

Of or pertaining to the larch. Keats.

pediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic. Keats. Consider whether your doings be to the let of your salvation or not. Latimer.

A leopard. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser. Keats.

Covered with a lid. Keats.

from all other obligations, their name being due to their freedom, not to their service. Skeat.

To utter; to speak. [R.] Keats.

A hill; a mound; a grave. [Obs. except in place names.] Skeat.

To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.

This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH. Skeat. Memorial Day. Same as Decoration Day. [U.S.]

Ill feature. [R.] Keats.

To send on a mission. [Mostly used in the form of the past participle.] Keats.

Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep. Keats.

e early part of the 14th century. "Mystery plays," so called because acted by craftsmen. Skeat.

Of or pertaining to negroes; composed of negroes. Keary.

Strong; sinewy. "His nervy knees." Keats.

ed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives. -- New land, land ckeared and cultivated for the first time. -- New light. (Zoöl.) See Crappie. -- New moon. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first…

To cause to bend. [Poetic] By every wind that nods the mountain pine. Keats.