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s intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.

per blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. F. W. Robertson.

gs, springs which flow at intervals, not apparently dependent upon rain or drought. They probably owe their intermittent action to their being connected with natural reservoirs in hills or mountains by passages having the form of a siphon, the water beginning to flow when it has accumulated so as to fill the upper part…

To put (something into a place); to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe.

He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as an invective against tyranny. The world will be able to judge of his [Junius…

Want of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability.

-- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

from coal-tar naphtha, as an oily liquid. It is a member of the quinoline series, and is probably identical with lepidine.

Firm; robust; enduring; as, an iron constitution.

Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word. Dryden.

Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.

A command to a horse, probably meaning "stand still." [Obs.] Chaucer.

r scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this.

r. Sir W. Hamilton. The power by which we are enabled to perceive what is true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment. Stewart.

To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost. Job's children junketed and feasted together often. South.

he Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Phoenician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian,. Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see).

ad, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. [Written also kaha.]

Carrion; any filth. [Prob. Eng.] Halliwell.

discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem. Those who are accustomed to reason have got the true key of books. Locke. Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. Tennyson.