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A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.

The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.

A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a spirit natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. to children.

To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at. "My jealous aim might err." Shak.

erved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention. They escaped the search of the enemy. Ludlow.

r honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea. The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. Burke.

Mysterious or hidden doctrines; secret science.

Mystery; esoterics; -- opposed to exotery. A. Tucker.

To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry. Lavinia will I make my empress, . . . And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse. Shak.

of judgment. It is the commencement of affection." Gogan. No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price. Cowper.

thing spoken of is regarded with interest by some one; as, Quid mihi Celsus agit How does my friend Celsus do

A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia.

ism. I am too much of a eudæmonist; I hanker too much after a state of happiness both for myself and others. De Quincey.

A genus of mytraceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce allspice and cloves of commerce.

The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.

To interpret (mythology) on the theory of euhemerism.

mode of dying to be desired. "An euthanasia of all thought." Hazlitt. The kindest wish of my friends is euthanasia. Arbuthnot.

To give vent to; to dissipate. [R.] My lord of Essex evaporated his thoughts in a sonnet. Sir. H. Wotton. Evaporating surface (Steam Boilers), that part of the heating surface with which water is in contact.

Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure. "I know my life so even." Shak.

promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact. "I see thou art exact of taste." Milton.