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most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison.

To hear by listening. [Archaic] [She] hearkened now and then Some little whispering and soft groaning sound. Spenser.

A little heart.

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26

c negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

A gambling house. "A convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless." W. Black.

One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist.

of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.

A crowd of low people; a rabble. But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. Dryden. You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question. Coleridge. Herd's grass (Bot.), one of several species of grass, highly esteemed for hay. See under Grass.

lished or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach. New opinions Divers and dangerous, which are heresies, And, not reformed, may prove pernicious. Shak. After the study of philosophy began in…

In Chinese literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the Yih King, or "Book of Changes." S. W. Williams.

A little case in which certain insects pass the winter.

An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.

Criticism which includes the study of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism.

to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress has yet been made.

tion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. We can not hold mortality's strong hand. Shak. Death! what do'st O,hold thy blow. Grashaw. He hat not sufficient judgment and self-command to hold his tongue. Macaulay.

A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.

annel. Forests grew Upon the barren hollows. Prior. I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. Tennyson.

A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. Sterne.