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k for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs" De Quincey.

He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. De Quincey.

Sortilege. [R.] De Quincey.

Atterbury. To this special evil an improvement of style would apply a special redress. De Quincey.

; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science. Coleridge. Specific character (Nat. Hist.), a characteristic or characteristics distinguishing one…

isfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship. Puttenham. Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations. Fuller.

th sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse commercial sponges, especially Spongia equina. -- Cup sponge, a toilet sponge growing in a cup-shaped form. -- Glass sponge. See Glass-sponge, in the Vocabulary. -- Glove sponge, a variety of commercial sponge (Spongia officinalis, variety tubulufera), having very fi…

A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup. Old squaw. (Zoöl.) See under Old.

The harlequin duck.

eded to great captains who had sapped the whole stamina and resistance of the contest. De Quincey.

The act of sneezing. Quincy.

e more than a foot long. -- To cut one's stick, or To cut stick, to run away. [Slang] De Quincey.

contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.

The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.

le; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance. "A striking fact." De Quincey. -- Strik"ing*ly, adv. -- Strik"ing*ness, n.

See Sty, a boil. [R.] De quincey.

ed by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons. "The sublime Julian leader." De Quincey.

e sort of chicanery attending the subornation of managers in the Leibnitz controversy. De Quinsey.

. . . wore masks as the sole substitute known to our ancestors for the modern parasol. De Quincey.

ous, -- these are the two frequent extremities to which the French manner betrays men. De Quincey.