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The commercial spirit or method. C. Kingsley.

It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. J. F. Cooper.

The use of concetti or affected conceits. [R.] C. Kingsley.

The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine.

Indian corn and butter, the combined taste resembling that of oysters. [U.S.] -- Corn parsley (Bot.), a plant of the parsley genus (Petroselinum ssegetum), a weed in parts of Europe and Asia. -- Corn popper, a utensil used in popping corn. -- Corn poppy (Bot.), the red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas), common in European corn…

urn a blow while receiving one, as in boxing. His left hand countered provokingly. C. Kingsley.

Same as Cow parsley.

straw. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Forby. A dove to fly home her nest and croodle there. C. Kingsley.

A gatepost or doorpost. [Local Eng.] C. Kingsley.

vernment which may with safety to itself neglect the education of its infant poor. Bp. Horsley.

Destruction; dispersion. Bp. Horsley.

it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C. Kingsley.

. . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles. C. Kingsley. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. Tennyson.

To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley.

able of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.

To collect specimens in the study of entomology. C. Kingsley.

thodist young people, founded in 1889 at Cleveland, Ohio, and taking its name from John Wesley's birthplace, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.

Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory. C. Kingsley. -- n.

One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.

I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer. C. Kingsley.