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in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs…

Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. Shak.

To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire. To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air. Dryden.

To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them. Shak.

Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes. From thence to heaven's bribeless hall. Sir W. Raleigh.

luminous; not dark. The sun was bright o'erhead. Longfellow. The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

t shall brighten into day. N. Cotton. And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere world be past. Goldsmith.

ar structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise. Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers. Milton.

To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] "Canceled from heaven." Milton.

carcass." South. Lovely her face; was ne'er so fair a creature. For earthly carcass had a heavenly feature. Oldham.

A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.

Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak.

To make like heaven. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.

A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay. Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out. Wildly we roam in discontent about. Dryden.

Moral purity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Milton.

t of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. "The circumambient heaven." J. Armstrong.

l. Civil men come nearer the saints of God than others; they come within a step or two of heaven. Preston

e. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Ps. li. 10 That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven Tennyson.