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sdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Hawthorne.

e with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.

selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne.

Of or pertaining to a crown; ferming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland. "Coronary thorns." Bp. Pearson. The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus. Sir T. Browne.

m different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

ke small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.

The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated. As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Eccl. vii. 6.

A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.

[Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.

nished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.

ft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck. Astratch of her clame, a dab of her beack. Hawthorne.

e dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.

With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.

Conspicuously; showily. [Colloq.] A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.

alt with him" on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out. Hawthorne. Return . . . and I will deal well with thee. Gen. xxxii. 9.

Very; with a tendency to darkness of color. The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle.

Deprived of glory; dishonored. [Obs.] "With thorns degloried." G. Fletcher.

d abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.