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Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.

one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market. Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks. Shak.

To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings. Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. W. Irving.

he sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.

ess; to weary; to sadden. Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance. Hooker.

of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also dulness.] And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.

culate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. Hooker.

Somewhat dusky. " Duskish smoke." Spenser. -- Dusk"ish*ly, adv. -- Dusk"ish*ness, n.

The language spoken in Holland.

adily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.

Robynson (More's Utopia). A set of intellectual ideas . . . have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor. Burrow.

Serious; important. [Obs.] They whom earnest lets do often hinder. Hooker.

Readily; without reluctance; willingly. Not soon provoked, she easily forgives. Prior.

it to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. [Colloq.] Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.

cient power; effectual agency. The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us. Hooker.

icient cause; a prime mover. God . . . moveth mere natural agents as an efficient only. Hooker.

To burn, or To hang, in effigy, to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium.

traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." H. Brooke.

sion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance…

To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument. [Obs.] Hooker.