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ead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style. De Quincey. Encysted tumor, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance. -- Fatty tumor. See under Fatty. -- Innocent tumor, or Benign tumor, one…

ltuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey.

. "Thine 's a tympany of sense." Dryden. A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence. De Quincey.

To loose from the anchor, as a ship. De Quincey.

, unballasted vessels; unballasted wits. Unballasted by any sufficient weight of plan. De Quincey.

unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.

d; quality of the unique; unification. Not unity, but what the schoolmen call unicity. De Quincey. The unicity we strive not to express, for that is impossible, but to designate by the nearest analogy. Coleridge.

nit; to unite; to view as one. A comprehensive or unifying act of the judging faculty. De Quincey. Perception is thus a unifying act. Sir W. Hamilton.

out a like; something unequaled or unparalleled. [R.] The phenix, the unique pf birds. De Quincey.

ge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." De Quincey.

Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. De Quincey.

To make one's way through; to traverse; as, to unthread a devious path. De Quincey.

frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence. De Quincey.

Being on, or towards, the van, or front. "The vanward frontier." De Quincey.

sion or declination of a star, produced by the combined effects of the precession of the equinoxes and the proper motion of the star. -- Calculus of variations. See under Calculus. -- Variation compass. See under Compass. -- Variation of the moon (Astron.), an inequality of the moon's motion, depending on the angula…

calendar. In this calendar, the year, which began at midnight of the day of the autumnal equinox, was divided into twelve months of thirty days, with five additional days for festivals, and every fourth year six. Each month was divided into three decades of ten days each, the week being abolished. The names of the mont…

enerable parent. He was a man of eternal self-sacrifice, and that is always venerable. De Quincey. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. D. Webster.

Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious. [R.] The example . . . of vernile scurrility. De Quincey.

hirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion. Some vertiginous whirl of fortune. De Quincey.

if with a vice. Shak. The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh. De Quincey.