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Wordsworth. For which the very mother's face forewent The mother's special patience. Mrs. Browning. Foregone conclusion, one which has preceded argument or examination; one predetermined.

n. Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. Mrs. Browning.

t piece of false hair worn by women. Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. Mrs. Browning.

Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant. [R.] "Clouds gestant with heat." Mrs. Browning.

An aureole. [R.] Msr. Browning.

Idle talk; gossip. Mrs. Browning.

To become large; to dilate. [R.] My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.

and more quick he spins in giddy gyres. Dryden. Still expanding and ascending gyres. Mrs. Browning.

alf truth, a statement only partially true, or which gives only a part of the truth. Mrs. Browning. -- Half year, the space of six moths; one term of a school when there are two terms in a year.

distinction in society; prominence. Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. R. Browning. All would in his power hold, all make his subjects. Chapman.

or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness. Crime and shame And all their hoggery. Mrs. Browning.

One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning.

An owl; an owlet. [Written also houlet.] R. Browning.

Humiliating; humbling. "Humiliant thoughts." [R.] Mrs. Browning.

tle hurtled in the air. Shak. The earthquake sound Hurtling 'death the solid ground. Mrs. Browning.

ear hyaline, the glassy sea." Milton. Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline. Mrs. Browning.

One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

rchaic] "In ydlesse." Spenser. And an idlesse all the day Beside a wandering stream. Mrs. Browning.

oral scenes, and the like. [Written also idyll.] Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl. Mrs. Browning. His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. F. Harrison.

jectionable person. Ignoring Italy under our feet, And seeing things before, behind. Mrs. Browning.