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present. Bacon. The song began from Jove. Drpden. From high Mæonia's rocky shores I came. Addison. If the wind blow any way from shore. Shak.

By disburdening grows More fruitful. Milton. The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. Addison.

Dryden. The diapason closing full in man. Dryden. Full in the center of the sacred wood. Addison.

Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.

h the variable is expressed by an equation that involves only the algebraic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a given power, and extracting a given root; -- opposed to transcendental function. -- Arbitrary function. See under Arbitrary. -- Calculus of functions. See under Calcu…

Addictedness to theft; thievishness. [Obs.]

To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther. Carries us, I know not how much further, into familiar company. M. Arnold. They sdvanced us far as Eleusis and Thria; but no further. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Further off, not so near; apart by a greater distance.

or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.

subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.

One addicted to idle talk.

not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself. Addison. My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty. Swift.

The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer. Addison.

In wine making, to add water and sugar to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced. -- Gal`li*za"tion (#), n.

material, such as gold lace. Silver and gold galloons, with the like glittering gewgaws. Addison.

The act of gaping; a yawn. Addison.

Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated. So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy. Shak. Matter and figure they produce; For garnish this, and that for use. Prior.

d respiration; a painful catching of the breath. At the last gasp, at the point of death. Addison.

in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison.

"The generous critic." Pope. "His generous spouse." Pope. "A generous pack [of hounds]." Addison.