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d which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay.

come to pass. Hammond. Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy. Coleridge.

Knowing; having knowledge. "Brutes may be and are scious." Coleridge.

A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip. [Cant]

A screech. [R.] Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch. Coleridge.

merican wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures.

The humiliated self-examinant feels that there is evil in our nature as well as good. Coleridge.

A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London. [Eng.]

Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies. Our abridged and septuagesimal age. Sir T. Browne.

An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents. "Coleridge and his sequela." G. P. Marsh.

ered. Same as Sear. But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere. Coleridge.

of ancient religion, the rites, ceremonies, and ceremonial vestments of the old law. Coleridge.

s, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.

, and the daughter against her mother. Matt. x. 35. Every incident sets him thinking. Coleridge.

A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading. [Colloq.]

rminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded; somewhat pointed or edged; peaked or ridged; as, a sharp hill; sharp features.

To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar. She . . . shoots the Stygian sound. Dryden.

To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc. Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain. Dryden.

ent shot. Shot belt, a belt having a pouch or compartment for carrying shot. -- Shot cartridge, a cartridge containing powder and small shot, forming a charge for a shotgun. -- Shot garland (Naut.), a wooden frame to contain shot, secured to the coamings and ledges round the hatchways of a ship. -- Shot gauge, an in…