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Majestic. Cowley. An older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. M. Arnold. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ness, n.

To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]

ylon should mount up to heaven. Jer. li. 53. The fire of trees and houses mounts on high. Cowley.

To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang; as, to nose a prayer. [R.] Cowley.

e present. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; But an eternal now does ever last. Cowley.

s; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture. Mr.Cowley asserts plainly, that obscenity has no place in wit. Dryden. No pardon vile obscenity should find. Pope.

To weary out. Cowley.

Having no pass; impassable. Cowley.

cter, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.

Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.

s of aged snow. Tennyson. The slippery tops of human state, The gilded pinnacles of fate. Cowley.

, to drink the health of; to toast. Pledge me, my friend, and drink till thou be'st wise. Cowley.

One who holds to the doctrine of predestination; a predestinarian. Cowley.

A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment. Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags. Milton. Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty. Fuller.

ellent; valuable to a degree seldom found. Rare work, all filled with terror and delight. Cowley. Above the rest I judge one beauty rare. Dryden.

Ready money, means of immediate payment; cash. "'Tis all the ready money fate can give." Cowley. -- Ready reckoner, a book of tables for facilitating computations, as of interest, prices, etc. -- To make ready, to make preparation; to get in readiness.

; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body. I do hope to recover my late hurt. Cowley. When I had recovered a little my first surprise. De Foe.

The act of retarding; retardation. Cowley.

; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment. Time, which made them their fame outlive, To Cowley scarce did ripeness give. Denham.

hey see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet. Burke.