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; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.

rences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms. New shades and combinations of thought. De Quincey. Every shade of religious and political opinion has its own headquarters. Macaulay. The Shades, the Nether World; the supposed abode of souls after leaving the body.

rrel. -- Sheep's-wool (Zoöl.), the highest grade of Florida commercial sponges (Spongia equina, variety gossypina). -- Sheep tick (Zoöl.), a wingless parasitic insect (Melophagus ovinus) belonging to the Diptera. It fixes its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks the blood, leaving a swelling. Called also shee…

us; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense. "A sheer impossibility." De Quincey. It is not a sheer advantage to have several strings to one's bow. M. Arnold.

t one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, - - no shilly-shally in Kate. De Quincey.

executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner. De Quincey. Keep everything shipshape, for I must go Tennyson.

t encounter. "They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together." De Quincey.

imp. of Shrive. Shrove Sunday, Quinguagesima Sunday. -- Shrove Tuesday, the Tuesday following Quinguagesima Sunday, and preceding the first day of Lent, or Ash Wednesday.

ays immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.

ecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by Tarquin the Proud from a sibyl. (b) Certain Jewish and early Christian writings purporting to have been prophetic and of sibylline origin. They date from 100 b. c. to a. d. 500.

or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.

Sorrowful; mournful. [R.] "Sigh-born thoughts." De Quincey.

I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess. De Quincey.

One who simulates, or feigns. De Quincey.

A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. De Quincey.

To squint. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To squint. [Prov. Eng.]

To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. Beau & Fl.

adows. Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey.

smug and smooth. Robynson (More's Utopia). The smug and scanty draperies of his style. De Quincey. A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. Beau & Fl.