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th. Bp. Warburton. He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty. Spectator.

tion which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness. That secret intoxication of pleasure. Spectator.

A bold, vicious woman; a termagant. Spectator.

latitude, that which depends on the varying position of the moon's axis in respect to the spectator, causing the alternate appearance and disappearance of either pole. (c) Diurnal or parallactic libration, that which brings into view on the upper limb, at rising and setting, some parts not in the average visible hemisp…

ing or where the leading player or players are placed and upon which the attention of the spectators is therefore concentrated. Hence, consspicuous position before the public; as, politicians who are never happy except in the limelight.

ne between the free and the slave States. -- On the line, on a level with the eye of the spectator; -- said of a picture, as hung in an exhibition of pictures. -- Right line a picture, as hung in an exhibition of pictures. -- Right line, a straight line; the shortest line that can be drawn between two points. -- Sh…

To be a mere spectator. I'll be a candleholder, and look on. Shak. -- To look out, to be on the watch; to be careful; as, the seaman looks out for breakers. -- To look through. (a) To see through. (b) To search; to examine with the eyes. -- To look to or unto. (a) To watch; to take care of. "Look well to thy herds."…

One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.

torious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth! Spectator.

iant; luxuriance. Flowers grow up in the garden in the greatest luxuriancy and profusion. Spectator.

pensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. Spectator.

To have effect; to be of importance or significance. [Cant & Obs.] Spectator. Magnifying glass, a lens which magnifies the apparent dimensions of objects seen through it.

me young female seems to have carried matters so far, that she is ripe for asking advice. Spectator.

in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator.

the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator. To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [Cant] -- To milk a telegra…

hout the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually. Spectator.

ut not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. That superior greatness and mock majesty. Spectator. Mock bishop's weed (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places. -- Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. -- Mock lead. See Blende (a). -- Mock nightingale…

eets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians. [Slang] Spectator. Macaulay.

Naïve; as, a naïf remark. London Spectator.

oerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. Spectator.