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Locke. It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living. J. C. Shairp.

tranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.

ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.

wer evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. J. C. Shairp.

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction. Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision. Atterbury.

To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate. Barrow. The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that Assembly. Am. Cyc.

To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.

stantial; merely decorative. You ask for reality, not fiction and filigree work. J. C. Shairp.

act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan. The chirp and flutter of some single bird Milnes. .

ristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know. J. C. Shairp.

The past; the time before the present. "A very dim foretime." J. C. Shairp.

cable; as, a forgiving temper. -- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp.

A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

constantly active; strenuous; striving. "A severer, more girt-up way of living." J. C. Shairp.

rness, as a horse. Also used figuratively. Harnessed to some regular profession. J. C. Shairp. Harnessed antelope. (Zoöl.) See Guib. -- Harnessed moth (Zoöl.), an American bombycid moth (Arctia phalerata of Harris), having, on the fore wings, stripes and bands of buff on a black ground.

eats. Dryden. [He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of "Tam o'Shanter." J. C. Shairp.

umane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. Franklin.

bitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.

housewife went about her work, or spun at her wheel, with a lilt upon her lips. J. C. Shairp.

Obs. or R.] Thinking lowlily of himself and highly of those better than himself. J. C. Shairp.