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only ask him to read , instead of taking the traditional witticisms about Lee for gospel. Saintsbury.

st one's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty. Swift.Saintsbury.-- A grain of allowance, a slight indulgence or latitude a small allowance. -- Grain binder, an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain into sheaves. -- Grain colors, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sec…

days in the inns of court and chancery (Candlemas, Ascension, St. John Baptist's, and All Saints' Days); called also Dies non juridici. -- Grand duchess. (a) The wife or widow of a grand duke. (b) A lady having the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right. (c) In Russia, a daughter of the Czar. -- Grand duke. (a) A so…

The lives of the saints. Brande & C.

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.

The invocation or worship of saints.

One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer. Tylor. Hagiologists have related it without scruple. Southey.

description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints. J. H. Newman.

The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. [Obs.]

The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. [Scot.] Burns.

The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak.

of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.

A saint. [Obs.] Chaucer.

borate attempt to hedge between the parties than . . . to gain favor from the Roundheads. Saintsbury.

See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.

The worship of saints or sacred things. [R.] Coleridge.

The office of an historiographer. Saintsbury.

right. Locke. There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails with him. Dryden. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight. Milton. He scarcely hit my humor. Tennyson.

lis and H. alpina). In the north of Europe it was formerly strewed before church doors on saints' days; whence the name. It is common in the northern and western parts of the United States. Called also vanilla, or Seneca, grass. -- Holy Innocents' day, Childermas day. -- Holy Land, Palestine, the birthplace of Christ…

the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels, saints, virtues, vices, etc.