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ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate. But fortune there extenuates the crime. Dryden. Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality. I. Taylor.

Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance. Dryden. The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance. Arbuthnot.

ate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly. "The extremest remedy." Dryden. "Extreme rapidity." Sir W. Scott. Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire. Shak.

Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot. Dryden.

s being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral. Dryden.

es; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance. We set the best faceon it we could. Dryden.

wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away. No winter could his laurels fade. Dryden.

o make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Dryden.

Feeble; languid. [R.] Dryden.

Given by fairies; as, fairy money. Dryden. Fairy bird (Zoöl.), the Euoropean little tern (Sterna minuta); -- called also sea swallow, and hooded tern. -- Fairy bluebird. (Zoöl.) See under Bluebird. -- Fairy martin (Zoöl.), a European swallow (Hirrundo ariel) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on overhanging cliffs…

fidelity; as, he violated his faith. For you alone I broke me faith with injured Palamon. Dryden.

him." Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. "Down fell the beauteous youth." Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. -- To fall flat, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. -…

ople cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden.

low on; to affect by air put in motion. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves. Dryden.

onception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine. He whom I fancy, but can ne'er express. Dryden.

A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1 De Colange.

A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. [R.] Dryden.

. We be come from a far country. Josh. ix. 6. The nations far and near contend in choice. Dryden.

in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false. Dryden.

isions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. "Philosophic fare." Dryden.