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A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.

An idiom, trait, or character peculiar to any nation.

nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness. The nebulosity ... of the mother idiom. I. Disraeli.

A Norman idiom; a custom or expression peculiar to the Normans. M. Arnold.

A Persian idiom.

A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.

Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.

aracter of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively. Our raciest, most idiomatic popular word. M. Arnold. Burn's English, though not so racy as his Scotch, is generally correct. H. Coleridge. The rich and racy humor of a natural converser fresh from the plow. Prof. Wilson.

To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms. [R.] Dryden.

A rural idiom or expression.

An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language. T. Warton.

An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.

A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin. [Written also Shemitism.]

of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax. A barbarism may be in one word; a solecism must be of more. Johnson.

A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism.

A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism. Paley.

A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism; a Syriacism. M. Stuart. The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms. Bp. Warburton.

t, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.

A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism.

The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.