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Struck with horror; horrified. Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley.

se nettle (Bot.), a coarse, prickly, American herb, the Solanum Carolinense. -- Horse parsley. (Bot.) See Alexanders. -- Horse purslain (Bot.), a coarse fleshy weed of tropical America (Trianthema monogymnum). -- Horse race, a race by horses; a match of horses in running or trotting. -- Horse racing, the practice o…

A cover; a shelter; a protection. [Archaic] Carew. C. Kingsley.

Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Shak.

ience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.

The quality of being indelible. Bp. Horsley.

Impudent or abusive talk. [Slang] H. Kingsley. Jaw bit (Railroad), a bar across the jaws of a pedestal underneath an axle box. -- Jaw breaker, a word difficult to pronounce. [Obs.] -- Jaw rope (Naut.), a rope which holds the jaws of a gaff to the mast. -- Jaw tooth, a molar or grinder; a back tooth.…

Scolding; clamorous or abusive talk. [Slang] H. Kingsley.

Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country. [R.] C. Kingsley.

in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. C. Kingsley.

An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. C. Kingsley.

A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch. Hard lines, hard lot. C. Kingsley. [See Def. 18.] -- Line breeding (Stockbreeding), breeding by a certain family line of descent, especially in the selection of the dam or mother. -- Line conch (Zoöl.), a spiral marine shell (Fasciolaria distans), of Florida and the West In…

ary man; a literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another." C. Kingsley.

water. Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph. C. Kingsley.

nto small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.

Having machicolations. "Machicolated turrets." C. Kingsley.

e or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude. The magnitude of his designs. Bp. Horsley. Apparent magnitude (Opt.), the angular breadth of an object viewed as measured by the angle which it subtends at the eye of the observer; - - called also apparent diameter. -- Magnitude of a star (Astron.), the rank of a st…

One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.

alism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.

formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties.