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appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.

tal endowment; characteristic knack. He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. Hawthorne.

with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] Cavendish. Which he doth most fantasy. Robynson (More's Utopia).

among the enraged hounds. Denham. I bid you most heartily well to fare. Robynson (More's Utopia). So fared the knight between two foes. Hudibras.

the thing complained of; but formerly by at. "Matter to find fault at." Robynson (More's Utopia).

y or prevent approach of by fear. z2 fera their people from doing evil. Robynsin (More's utopia). Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs. Shak.

me into the finest or fairest condition. Their lusty and flowering age. Robynson (More's Utopia). When flowered my youthful spring. Spenser.

se. [Obs.] "Nor for because they set less store by their own citizens." Robynson (More's Utopia). -- For why. (a) Why; for that reason; wherefore. [Obs.] (b) Because. [Obs.] See Forwhy.

that ships may pass along forby all the sides of the city without let. Robynson (More's Utopia).

to further my design. Dryden. I should nothing further the weal public. Robynsom (More's Utopia).

Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia)

The mistress of a house. [Archaic] Robynson (More's Utopia).

old fast; to embrace closely. Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure Robynson (More's Utopia).

pecter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson (More's Utopia). Grisly bear. (Zoöl.) See under Grizzly.

Ability; aptitude. [Obs.] Robynson. (More's Utopia).

of war] be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. Robynson (Utopia). For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him. Spenser.

n equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them. Robynson (More's Utopia).

, a school, a church, a state, and the like. "Their princes and heads." Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. Milton.

niversal principles, of the nature and orders of celestial beings, of medicine, and other topics.

A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; -- usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume.