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Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

e soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

Having the power of perceiving; percipient. [Archaic] Glanvill. I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

Disregard or violation of law. [R.] Glanvill.

Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

Act of striking or conflicting. [R.] Glanvill.

he. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.

e; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory. In a confident and assertive form. Glanvill. As*sert"ive*ly, adv. -- As*sert"ive*ness, n.

point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. Glanvill. Spelman. Cowell. Blackstone. Tomlins. Burrill.

To stun. [Obs.] "Breathless and astunned." Somerville.

That which attracts, as a magnet. The motion of the steel to its attrahent. Glanvill.

e part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.

A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landsca…

In Spain and countries colonized by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs.

held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. Base fee, formerly, an estate held at the will of the lord; now, a qualified fee. See note under Fee, n., 4. -- Base metal. See under Metal.…

To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. Love is begot by fancy. Granville.

To hand down; to transmit. To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill.

trociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. "This day's black fate." "Black villainy." "Arise, black vengeance." "Black day." "Black despair." Shak.

ramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.

to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.