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A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. Dunglison.

used as a medicine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language. Warton.

Full of censure; censorious. The censorial declamation of Juvenal. T. Warton.

To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart. To checkmate and control my just demands. Ford.

An excrescence on the body, as a wart. [Obs.]

oir from the aisles. -- Choir service, the service of singing performed by the choir. T. Warton.

complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

"A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.

An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus. [R.] T. Warton.

To travel around. [Obs.] "Having circuited the air." T. Warton.

Circulating, or going round. T. Warton.

A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. [Eng.] T. Warton.

Possesing harmony; accordant. [R.] Warton.

on of our past sensations, or of the objects of sense that we have formerly perceived. Stewart.

s the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects. Stewart.

One who maintains the theory of conceptualism. Stewart.

A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrance.

In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.

association; nearness; proximity. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.