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Shak. On its outer point, some miles away. The lighthouse lifts its massive masonry. Longfellow.

mployed about. Pope. Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

antship is gone, somewhat crestfallen. Milton. Somewhat back from the village street. Longfellow.

; versification. A half-effected inscription. Written with little skill of songcraft. Longfellow.

ow not why I am so sad. Shak. In good sooth, Its mystery is love, its meaninng youth. Longfellow.

with blandishments or soft words; to flatter. Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. Shak. I've tried the force of every reason on him, Soothed and caressed, been angry, soothed again. Addison.

To associate, or hold fellowship, as sisters; to have sisterly feelings; -- analogous to fraternize. [Recent & R.]

A lazy fellow. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] outh. In Egypt oft has seen the sot bow down, And reverence some dOldham.

A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule. [Colloq.]

, about its axis. Round about him spun the landscape, Sky and forest reeled together. Longfellow. With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. G. W. Cable.

One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.

One who squares, or quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow. [Obs.] Shak.

A paltry fellow. [Obs.] Spenser.

an actor in a theater, supposed, for dramatic effect, to be unheard by one or more of his fellow actors, yet audible to the audience; an aside. stage of the game, [Colloq.] stage n. 10.

their thrones by the names of stalls. Bp. Warburton. Loud the monks in their stalls. Longfellow.

Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.

against something; to dash into fragments. Like a vessel of glass she stove and sank. Longfellow.

Dryden. I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. Longfellow.

y avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.