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Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram. [R.] Ash.

hteousness. Rom. iv. 9. Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne.

Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne.

a whirling sensation; to be giddy. In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled. Hawthorne.

The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus.

-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than those marks of childish preference. Hawthorne.

To grow again. The snail had power to regrow them all [horns, tongue, etc.] A. B. Buckley.

inomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne.

l an assault, an encroachment, or an argument. [He] gently repelled their entreaties. Hawthorne.

the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements. Hawthorne.

sex, behind. Prior. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. Hawthorne.

iet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne.

rtaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceæ, or Rhamneæ) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus).

A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purchianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.

The horny covering of the bill of birds.

One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.

Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros, or his horn. Tatler.

own. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.

ism; a rigid sentence. The more rigid order of principles in religion and government. Hawthorne.

eam; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil. River chub (Zoöl.), the hornyhead and allied species of fresh-water fishes. -- River crab (Zoöl.), any species of fresh-water crabs of the genus Thelphusa, as T. depressa of Southern Europe. -- River dragon, a crocodile; -- applied by Milton to the kin…