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tion of the weather from hot to cold. There is no death, what seems so is transition. Longfellow.

; transformation. [Colloq.] Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son. Thackeray.

] As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward.

quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old. He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints. Harvey.

; gloomy. Shak. Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, Heart so full of care and cumber. Longfellow.

An honest fellow. Shak. Bacon.

A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang] Alfred is a trump, I think you say. Thackeray. To put to one's trumps, or To put on one's trumps, to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion. But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign th…

Abounding with tufts. Both in the tufty frith and in the mossy fell. Drayton.

pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] This put the old fellow in a rare tweague. Arbuthnot.

s if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service. Addison.

To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange.

A tyrant. [Obs.] Lordly love is such a tyran fell. Spenser.

ure or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. "The unctuous cheese." Longfellow.

to fail. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection. 1 Cor. ix. 27. The minstrel fell, but the foeman's chain Could not bring his proud soul under. Moore.

Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.

An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow. Milton. he fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Shak.

A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith.

families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach. Under his great vicegerent reign abide, United as one individual soul. Milton. The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form…

To annul or reverse by an act of the will. Longfellow.

Sir Roger was up. Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Longfellow.