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The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness. Goldsmith.

arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.

cturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity. W. Smith.

equence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College. Percy Smith.

An inordinate desire for some supposed good. All are taught an avarice of praise. Goldsmith.

ad; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble.

mind with awe -- the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power. C. J. Smith. To stand in awe of, to fear greatly; to reverence profoundly.

Macaulay. An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust. C. J. Smith.

A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] Goldsmith.

with out; as, to bail water out of a boat. Buckets . . . to bail out the water. Capt. J. Smith.

To make up in a bale. Goldsmith.

n warmth; to be exposed to genial heat. Basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave. Goldsmith.

The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Ba…

A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.

ry between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean. How unlike their Belgic sires of old. Goldsmith.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith.

y contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. "Having made his bets." Goldsmith.

Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith.