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ery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. De Quincey.

th one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.

ry; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. The whole people were draped professionally. De Quincey. These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.

ess. Prov. viii. 18. An interest which from its object and grounds must be so durable. De Quincey.

ing supernatural. [Written also eiryness.] The sense of eariness, as twilight came on. De Quincey.

ng exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. "Ebullient with subtlety." De Quincey. The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle.

to originate. That subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate. De Quincey.

on more substantial materials. Hawthorne. Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. De Quincey.

being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. The enormity of his learned acquisitions. De Quincey.

roposal. I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke. De Quincey. A rumor gained ground, -- and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people. Hawthorne.

To be twisted or twined. With whose imperial laurels might entwine no cypress. De Quincey.

In or of the country. [R.] Epichorial superstitions from every district of Europe. De Quincey.

aylor. An epic poet, if ever such a difficult birth should make its epiphany in Paris. De Quincey.

eight; to counterbalance. "More than equiponderated the declension in that direction." De Quincey.

three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey.

The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes. De Quincey.

a eudæmonist; I hanker too much after a state of happiness both for myself and others. De Quincey.

e dissipated and disappear, like vapor. I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated. De Quincey.

f exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. De Quincey.

or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument. Great executants on the organ. De Quincey.