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rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.

ss may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.

To reduce; to throw. The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. South.

A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc. [Southern U.S.]

With confidence. South.

A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.

To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between. [R.] Southey.

A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica.

liantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.

heasants of the genus Euplocamus, having the lower back a bright, fiery red. They inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies.

t injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces. Ure.

illusory pretext; deception; delusion. [Obs.] A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity. South.

flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute. Has not this also its flaws and its dark side South.

A grin of civility; a leer. [Obs.] A sly, treacherous fleer on the face of deceivers. South.

rk no more now floats, but seems on ground. Milton. Three blustering nights, borne by the southern blast, I floated. Dryden.

able the Psalms do more briefly contain. Hooker. The flower of the chivalry of all Spain. Southey. A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats of arms. Tennyson.

cite; to animate; to stir. Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition. South.

be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused. The flstering, vainglorious Greeks. South.

. He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or fluxed into another world. South.

When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. South.