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of his household; Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, crane, and beaver. Longfellow. The totem,the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way attends tothe clan and watches over it. Bagehot.

Toward a town. Longfellow.

ble respect Shak. Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré. Longfellow.

To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat. Longfellow.

tion of the weather from hot to cold. There is no death, what seems so is transition. Longfellow.

; transformation. [Colloq.] Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son. Thackeray.

; gloomy. Shak. Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, Heart so full of care and cumber. Longfellow.

An honest fellow. Shak. Bacon.

A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang] Alfred is a trump, I think you say. Thackeray. To put to one's trumps, or To put on one's trumps, to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion. But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign th…

pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] This put the old fellow in a rare tweague. Arbuthnot.

s if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service. Addison.

ure or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. "The unctuous cheese." Longfellow.

Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.

An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow. Milton. he fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Shak.

A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith.

families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach. Under his great vicegerent reign abide, United as one individual soul. Milton. The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form…

To annul or reverse by an act of the will. Longfellow.

Sir Roger was up. Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Longfellow.

Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. [Scot.] Jamieson.

To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.