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Cessation; stop; end. "Not desire, but its surcease." Longfellow. It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. Bacon.

A sour, morose fellow. [Obs.] Camden.

the conquerors. Sir J. Denham. Alike are life and death, When life in death survives. Longfellow.

pering; a whisper; a murmur. De Quincey. The soft susurrus and sighs of the branches. Longfellow.

Eng.] Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell -- thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow. Blount.

One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.

An active and clever young fellow. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.

a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. Longfellow.

A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping. The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop. L'Estrange.

ov. Eng. or Archaic] Shak. Dryden. The landlord stirred As one awaking from a swound. Longfellow.

ected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling. They saw, but other sight instead -- a crowd Of ugly serpents! Horror on them fell, And horrid sympathy. Milton.

; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons. "She to her tackle fell." Hudibras.

servile toil. Milton. Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close. Longfellow.

in all the splendor Of its garments green and yellow, Of its tassels and its plumage. Longfellow.

A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. L'Estrange.

nt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. "A leopard's tawny and spotted hide." Longfellow.

us*ness, n. They saw the Hebrew leader, Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard. Longfellow.

, tenebrous night. J. Hall (1565). The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. Longfellow.