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aubed with many bright and glaring colors, the vulgar admire it is an excellent piece. I. Watts. A lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over. Dryden.

deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book. The deistical or antichristian scheme. I. Watts.

Final; serving to complete; conclusive. [Obs.] "Desitive propositions." I. Watts.

eral dictates orders to his troops. Whatsoever is dictated to us by God must be believed. Watts.

Any small cubical or square body. Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies. Watts.

belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion. I. Watts.

ed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper. I. Watts.

of a drum. We are enabled to distinguish good from evil, as well as truth from falsehood. Watts. Nor more can you distinguish of a man, Than of his outward show. Shak.

th; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. "The doctrine of gravitation." I. Watts. Articles of faith and doctrine. Hooker. The Monroe doctrine (Politics), a policy enunciated by President Monroe (Message, Dec. 2, 1823), the essential feature of which is that the United States will regard as an unfriendly…

ld not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time. I. Watts.

ed up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts.

prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles. To dub a fly, to dress a fishing fly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

licities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts.

To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.

said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out. Youwatt.

That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. I. Watts. A particular and exceptive law. Milton.

light. What a glorius entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit. I. Watts.

e same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.

g, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance. And fiery billows roll below. I. Watts.

eness; beauty. [Obs.] Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts.