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Be silent! Hush! Mum, then, and no more. Shak.

To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar. And then when mumping with a sore leg, ... canting and whining. Burke.

To fortify; to strengthen. [Obs.]

To think on; to meditate on. Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise. Thomson.

th a whimsical, muzzy look, like men whose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather then wine. W. Irving.

some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance; mystic Babylon. Thus, then, did the spirit of unity and meekness inspire every joint and sinew of the mystical body. Milton. -- Mys"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Mys"tic*al*ness, n.

A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.

A round earthen dish, with a flat bottom and sloping sides. [Written also nappie.]

ithholding of assents; veto. If a kind without his kingdom be, in a civil sense, nothing, then ... his negative is as good as nothing. Milton.

quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton.

ntly embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism.

at the time of Attila (called Etzel in the poem) and mythological elements pointing to heathen times.

To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in. And thence proceed to nicking sashes. Prior. The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship. Shak.

natives of Venezuela from the roasted seeds of a leguminous tree (Piptadenia peregrina), thence called niopo tree.

about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood! T. Baker. Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. Spectator.

rystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene.

A northener; a person from the north country.

ds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary…

A new star, usually appearing suddenly, shining for a brief period, and then sinking into obscurity. Such appearances are supposed to result from cosmic collisions, as of a dark star with interstellar nebulosities. The most important modern novæ are: -- No"va Co*ro"næ Bo`re*a"lis [1866]; No"va Cyg"ni [1876]; No"va An*d…

parasite and a man of honor L'Estrange. Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is Shak. Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. John xviii. 40. The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men is, by their being misrepresented. Now, by calling evil good, a man…