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. Poet and saint to thee alone were given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven. Cowley.

n tears Do scald like molten lead. Shak. Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall. Cowley.

ng with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat. [Written also scimachy.] Cowley.

language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts. The wretched affectation of scurrile laughter. Cowley. A scurrile or obscene jest will better advance you at the court of Charles than father's ancient name. Sir W. Scott.

Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. [R.] Cowley.

The shock and noise produced in slamming. The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam. Dickens.

ing firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise. The slippery tops of human state. Cowley.

A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Dr. H. More.

To make solid or firm. [Obs.] Cowley.

cows lately slaughtered. Sir W. Scott. Bluff Harry broke into the spence, And turned the cowls adrift. Tennyson.

*ness, n. [Obs.] Spoke like a sprightful gentlemen. Shak. Steeds sprightful as the light. Cowley.

s so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave. Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical. Dryden.

ss; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley.

To make swarthy. [Obs.] Cowley.

ler; an occupant. "Sweet tenants of this grove." Cowper. The hhappy tenant of your shade. Cowley. The sister tenants of the middle deep. Byron. Tenant in capite Etym: [L. in in + capite, abl. of caput head, chief.], or Tenant in chief, by the laws of England, one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feud…

too wide; too high; too many; too much. His will, too strong to bend, too proud to learn. Cowley.

Occupying the third post or rank. [Obs.] Cowley.

Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical. " Thy tuneless serenade." Cowley. How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire! Goldsmith.

One of the breasts of a woman. [R.] Yon Juno of majestic size, With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes. Pope.

A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate. Cowley.