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e passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.

d to sovereigns or states; a confederate. The English soldiers and their French allies. Macaulay.

The simplest rudiments; elements. The very alphabet of our law. Macaulay. Deaf and dumb alphabet. See Dactylology.

ried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union. Macaulay.

ve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay.

clouds." Milton. "Amidst acclamations." "Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court." Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak.

city or intellectual powers. "Amplitude of mind." Milton. "Amplitude of comprehension." Macaulay.

that which amuses; diversion. His favorite amusements were architecture and gardening. Macaulay.

A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

l of windings and turnings; sinuosity. The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay.

mson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay. Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; -- so called from its beginning with the song of the heavenly host recorded in Luke ii. 14. Eadie.

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike. Macaulay.

each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." Macaulay. "The annals of our religion." Rogers.

exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. "To annihilate the army." Macaulay.

futed, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.

neers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform. Macaulay.