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five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship. Spectator.

To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park. [R.] Spectator.

Not They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner. Spectator.

hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing. Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. Spectator. [They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. Glanvill. Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.

nd dropped in a moment. Steele. Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated. Spectator.

To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment. [Written also dumbfound.] Spectator.

highly attractive. The beautiful wildness of nature, without the nicer elegancies of art. Spectator.

Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.

A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play. A good play no epilogue, yet . . . good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. Shak.

orseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue. An equestrian lady appeared upon the plains. Spectator.

influence of an evil spirit or demon. Exorcise the beds and cross the walls. Dryden. Mr. Spectator . . . do all you can to exorcise crowds who are . . . processed as I am. Spectator.

he front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator. A mist . . . watered the whole face of the ground. Gen. ii. 6. Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face. Byron.

as, the child favors his father. The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master. Spectator.

hich embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. Fairholt.

ppearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch. Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off. Spectator.

A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. [Colloq.] Spectator.

To fluster. [Colloq.] Spectator.

lly followed by all, aught, anything, etc. The writer will do what she please for all me. Spectator. God's desertion shall, for aught he knows, the next minute supervene. Dr. H. More. For anything that legally appears to the contrary, it may be a contrivance to fright us. Swift.

mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.

To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.