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of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption. De Quincey.

Directly; flatly; point blank. De Quincey.

rag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. Johnson. De Quincey.

Something big; a good stout example of the kind. The stone must be a bouncer. De Quincey.

To carouse; to bouse; to booze. De Quincey.

that are most canorous." Sir T. Browne. A long, lound, and canorous peal of laughter. De Quincey.

. Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique deflections from the general rule). De Quincey.

ve given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.

re is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

med by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called ckipper…

minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.

d, Of all past ages, to the general doom Shall hasten. Milton. Cited by finger of God. De Quincey.

e. To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] De Quincey.

pbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.

To pickle; to preserve; as, to condite pears, quinces, etc. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

wthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey.

accident; something inopportune or embarassing; a hitch. In this unhappy contretemps. De Quincey.

, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. Byron.

The exact opposite. The German prose offers the counterpole to the French style. De Quincey.