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to pull down than build up." Howell. " To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud." Roscommon. To pull a finch. See under Finch. To pull off, take or draw off.

sea. For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked Roscommon.

ult; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot. I will not quarrel with a slight mistake. Roscommon.

ast remiss, I bear thee witness. Milton. These nervous, bold; those languid and remiss. Roscommon. Its motion becomes more languid and remiss. Woodward.

According to any rule of art; correctly. You with strict discipline instructed right. Roscommon.

pinion; judgment; notion; opinion. I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. Roscommon. The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. Macaulay.

g backward from the present; before this or now; ago. w many ages since has Virgil writ Roscommon. About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady's house. Sir P. Sidney.

nkard. "A brutal sot." Granville. Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine. Roscommon.

p; to part with. Where angry Jove did never spare One breath of kind and temperate air. Roscommon. I could have better spared a better man. Shak. To spare one's self. (a) To act with reserve. [Obs.] Her thought that a lady should her spare. Chaucer.

sed into a narrow compass; brief; concise. Let all your precepts be succinct and clear. Roscommon. The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind. South.

y a sword; to sully a person's reputation. Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke. Roscommon. No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity. Atterbury.

Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. Tame slaves of the laborious plow. Roscommon.

ittle experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. 'T is dangerous tampering with a muse. Roscommon.

of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought. Roscommon.

loaded cart; to tug a ship into port. There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar. Roscommon.

annical government. "A power tyrannical." Shak. Our sects a more tyrannic power assume. Roscommon. The oppressor ruled tyrannic where he durst. Pope. -- Ty*ran"nic*al*ly, adv. -- Ty*ran"nic*al*ness, .

urke. Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue. Roscommon.

to move to action; to awaken. Then Homer's and Tyrtæus' martial muse Wakened the world. Roscommon. Venus now wakes, and wakens love. Milton. They introduce Their sacred song, and waken raptures high. Milton.

Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute. "Men grown wanton by prosperity." Roscommon.