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orwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.

seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.

earnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.

A variety of the common hawthorn. Loudon.

he young count's good nature and easy persuadability were among his best characteristics. Hawthorne. -- Good people. See Good folk (above). -- Good speed, good luck; good success; godspeed; -- an old form of wishing success. See Speed. -- Good turn, an act of kidness; a favor. -- Good will. (a) Benevolence; well wis…

r in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent. He was a grandfatherly sort of personage. Hawthorne.

The fruit of the hawthorn. Bacon.

Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hawthorn. R. Scot.

Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear. In many an hour of danger and heartquake. Hawthorne.

confusion." Addison. An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous. Hawthorne.

ich one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt. "Our old home [England]." Hawthorne.

Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.

Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical. Hawthorne. Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind. Dryden.

Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke.

Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.

ng over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope.

. A great incommodity to the body. Jer. Taylor. Buried him under a bulk of incommodities. Hawthorne.

ylor. His slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were odious in the clergyman's sight. Hawthorne.

ized by treachery and deceit; as, insidious arts. The insidious whisper of the bad angel. Hawthorne. Insidious disease (Med.), a disease existing, without marked symptoms, but ready to become active upon some slight occasion; a disease not appearing to be as bad as it really is.