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A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration. Keats. Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. Longfellow.

Struck with horror; horrified. Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley.

on the lea. Tennyson. Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic- struck deer. Prescott.

Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating; as, ignescent stones.

ent of this angle. -- Line of incidence, the line in the direction of which a surface is struck by a body, ray of light, and the like.

rop (Sedum acre). -- Jack-of-the-clock, a figure, usually of a man, on old clocks, which struck the time on the bell. -- Jack-on-both-sides, one who is or tries to be neutral. -- Jack-out-of-office, one who has been in office and is turned out. Shak. -- Jack the Giant Killer, the hero of a well-known nursery story.…

An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

esonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.

One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper. Halliwell.

ith points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; as, brass knuckles; -- called also knuckle duster. [Slang.] Knuckle joint (Mach.), a hinge joint, in which a projection with an eye, on one piece, enters a jaw between two corresponding projections with eyes, on another pi…

A ball which, when struck, flies through the air in a nearly straight line not far from the ground.

coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; -- first struck in 1640.

ons, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.

A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck. Knight.

To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder. Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 1 john iii. 13.

Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms.

ronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I; as, he struck me; he gave me the money, or he gave the money to me; he got me a hat, or he got a hat for me.

A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.

A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.

To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner. Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. C. Kingsley.