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The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. Spencer. In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. Milton.

Bald. [Obs.] "With scull all raw." Spencer

Rawboned. [Obs.] Spencer.

drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment. H. Spencer.

ruction of life, is a discipline in callousness. Whatever sympathies exist are seared. H. Spencer.

; as, a serial work or publication. "Classification . . . may be more or less serial." H. Spencer.

Brightness. J. Spence.

eats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science. H. Spencer.

To make solid or compact. Every machine is a solidified mechanical theorem. H. Spencer.

urtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required such stripping. Mrs. Gaskell.

he passage from a structureless state to a structured state is itself a vital process. H. Spencer.

Having no tail. H. Spencer.

o thrash over the old straw. The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. H. Spencer.

the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.

A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities. J. Spence. An article, or piece, of virtu, an object of art or antiquity; a curiosity, such as those found in museums or private collections. I had thoughts, in my chambers to place it in view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtù. Goldsmith.…

The quality or condition of being viviparous. H. Spencer.

rewith to answer him. Ps. cxix. 42. The wherewith to meet excessive loss by radiation. H. Spencer.

An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; -- opposed to zooid. H. Spencer.