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Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

Brown or grayish black; darkish. Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like. Burke.

A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.

Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.

alts, forming tannate and gallate of iron, which are the essential ingredients of common black ink.

rocedure; projected line of operations; plan; project. Your murderous game is nearly up. Blackw. Mag. It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. Saintsbury.

One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.

To clothe; array; deck. These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely. Tennyson.

Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous. "Unconnected, gaseous information." Sir J. Stephen.

To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope. To be gathered to one's people, or to one's fathers to die. Gen. xxv. 8. -- To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get breath; to rest. Spenser. -- To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a g…

The black currant; also, the wild plum. [Prov. Eng.]

nsferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell. The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell. Milton.

That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from generalities to particulars. Landor. The glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. R. Choate.

ndon, 1576). It was the first English Bible printed in Roman type instead of the ancient black letter, the first which recognized the division into verses, and the first which ommited the Apocrypha. In form it was a small quarto, and soon superseded the large folio of Cranmer's translation. Called also Genevan Bible.…

To expose to infamy; to blacken. I'll gibbet up his name. Oldham.

The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley. W. Black.

Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes. "In his glassy eye." Byron. Glassy feldspar (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.

sure footing; smooth; slippery. [Prov. Eng.] Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones. R. D. Blackmore.

ark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser.

n America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc. Gnat catcher (Zoöl.), one of several species of small American singing birds, of the genus Polioptila, allied to the kinglets. -- Gnat flower, the bee flower. -- Gnat hawk (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker; -- call…