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A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance. Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. Bancroft.

To confuse; to entangle. I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.

a dominant influence. The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. Cowper.

In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh.

nd also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced.

s, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.

o inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate. They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted. Dryden.

Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.

Space thought which anything is expanded; also, pure space. Lost in expansion, void and infinite. Blackmore.

ter; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for. [Obs.] Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs. Pope.

Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding. Writings that were extant at that time. Sir M. Hale. The extant portraits of this great man. I. Taylor.

; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible. Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. Milton. This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway. Prof. Wilson.

That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim. "His faded cheek." Milton. Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight. Keats.

To perish; to vanish; to be lost. "How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing" Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. "One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly." Addison. -- To fall back. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of perform…

hat which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. Winning by conquest what the first man lost, By fallacy surprised. Milton.

A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak.

e battle itself. In this glorious and well-foughten field. Shak. What though the field be lost Milton.

To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.

Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.