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To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. Boyle.

The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation. [Obs.] Boyle.

Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

Alkaline. [Obs.] Boyle.

; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.

To amalgamate. Boyle. B. Jonson.

Enamel. [Obs.] Boyle.

anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak.

ike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.

for never, can't for can not), and as sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e.

To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. [Archaic] Boyle.

To bask in the sun. Boyle.

Readiness in learning; docility; aptness. He was a boy of remarkable aptitude. Macaulay.

etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

cture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.

Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.] Artful in speech, in action, and in mind. Pope. The artful revenge of various animals. Darwin.

To make rough or uneven. The asperated part of its surface. Boyle.

ughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

Rough; uneven. Boyle.