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and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt. Macaulay. Now for our Irish wars; We must supplant those rough, rug-headed kerns. Shak.

ks a groom; a man kicks a dog. He [Frederick the Great] kicked the shins of his judges. Macaulay. To kick the beam, to fit up and strike the beam; -- said of the lighter arm of a loaded balance; hence, to be found wanting in weight. Milton. -- To kick the bucket, to lose one's life; to die. [Colloq. & Low]…

dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. "Knavish politicians." Macaulay.

became him to take advantage of such a laches with the eagerness of a shrewd attorney. Macaulay.

ody of the people not in orders. A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal caste. Macaulay.

expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon. Ribald poets had lampooned him. Macaulay.

l aspect of a country. The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. Macaulay. Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.

s.] Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. Milton. Lank hair, long, thin hair. Macaulay.

One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.

When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay.

strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. The discipline was lax. Macaulay. Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions. J. A. Symonds. The word "æternus" itself is sometimes of a lax signification. Jortin.

e; to reveal. -- To lay over, to spread over; to cover. -- To lay out. (a) To expend. Macaulay. (b) To display; to discover.

s now come back to us, like a thief from transportation, under the alias of Legitimacy. Macaulay.

combination of colors. Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic. Macaulay.

osed to severity and rigor. His exceeding lenity disposes us to be somewhat too severe. Macaulay.

That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc. " The Irish levies." Macaulay.

s, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies. " Liberal education." Macaulay. " A liberal tongue." Shak.

berty. He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. Macaulay.

. If a thousand candles be all lighted from one. Hakewill. And the largest lamp is lit. Macaulay. Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this. Addison.

ortrait. [How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine. Macaulay.