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d ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc. Easiness and handsome address in writing. Felton.

To be, or be like, a suspended weight. Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden. Addison.

with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town. Addison. He was hankering to join his friend. J. A. Symonds.

With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success. Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.

ssed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyson.

g was too hard for the horse. L'Estrange. A power which will be always too hard for them. Addison.

Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) carbon.

of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a spray of cold water. This proces…

voc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison.

ers. An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them. Addison.

t for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison.

A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. "I speak to thee, my heart." Shak.

lly; as, he heartily assisted the prince. To eat heartily, to eat freely and with relish. Addison.

An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance. [Obs.] Shak.

Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors. Dickens.

dicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise. It has raised . . . heats in their faces. Addison. The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white- flame heat, and a sparking or welding heat. Moxon.

A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing. Addison. Shak.

brew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison.

ice or slaughter of any large number of victims. Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed. Addison. More than a human hecatomb. Byron.